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Zeroing In on Place and Race: Youth Disconnection in America’s Cities
Measure of America uses new data to provide a comprehensive look at the quality of life and general welfare of the roughly...
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1.4KAward-Winning Program Highlights Effective Practices as Summer Learning Day Celebrated
Young children bound off the bus on summer mornings at Hickory Grove Elementary School in Charlotte, N.C. They’re coming to summer camp...
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2.8KReport Helps Police Protect Kids While Arresting Their Parents
Each year in the United States, several million children witness the arrest of a parent. These arrests are most likely to be...
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1.1KNSLA Chief Urges Support for Summer Learning — Especially on Friday
Here’s a stark picture of the “achievement gap”: Four out of five low-income kids are not reading proficiently at the end of...
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1.8K‘Our Kids’ — How One San Francisco Program Gets Teens Off Drugs
“We call them our kids versus our clients because they spend most of their time with us,” counselor Julia Barboza said. “At...
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1.4KBiggest Obstacles To HIV Treatment Aren’t Medical, Doctor Says
“About 50 percent of the patients we get are Latino males,” said Belzer. “Then another 35 to 40 percent are African-American [males]....
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1.6KEpidemic of HIV Among Youth Needs Structural Repair, Experts Believe
Many people who work with adolescents are concerned that a lack of education and information when they come of age sexually might...
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2.2KWhat Three People Learned About Suicide and Kids
When Cynthia Fontanella saw the numbers, she was surprised. It wasn’t that almost 66,595 kids in the United States had killed themselves...
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The Condition of Education 2015
The latest edition of the National Center for Education Statistics' annual "Condition of Education" report utilizes 42 indicators to summarize and explain...
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2.2KEx-Gang Member’s Life Does a 180 After He Joins Los Ryderz
LOS ANGELES — Riding his bike through the barren projects of Watts — the sidewalks of which are scattered with used heroin...
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1.5KYouth-led HIV & AIDS Awareness Day
In honor of National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day on April 10, three Atlanta-area organizations hosted Healthy Sex, Healthy Futures, an...
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2.4KYoung People & HIV-AIDS
ATLANTA — The number of HIV-positive cases among 13- to 24-year-olds is increasing at alarming rates, according to HIV and AIDS researchers,...
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Baltimore Young to Get Volunteer Work Making City Greener Under 50-City Plan
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the Interior Youth Initiative will help to pass along values of “teamwork, local pride, and social responsibility to...
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2.0KOutreach to Rural Areas Provides National Model for Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Georgia Campaign for Power & Potential CEO Kim Nolte is the first to concede that stemming the tide of adolescent pregnancies in...
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3.9KHas the Children’s Rights Convention Made a Difference?
The provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child have been incorporated into the laws of several countries, according...
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1.2KThe Strange Career of a Children’s Rights Treaty
Sitting in the wings, unwilling to ratify the Children’s Rights Convention, were the United States and South Sudan, the only two holdouts...
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2.8KRural Youth Face More Economic Hardship, Have Fewer Enrichment Opportunities
After-school activities fill a gap in remote communities, but administrators struggle to fund youth-development programs. One trend is clear: Students in rural...
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2.5KAfter-School Programs Needed, But Scarce in Poorly Funded Rural Areas
One in every five children in the United States — nearly 10 million students — attends school in what the Census Bureau...
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12.7KRapper Kendrick Lamar Uses Music, Money As Vehicle for Social Change
The high school in Compton had a small, financially starved music program until hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar decided to give back to...
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1.2KWidespread Youth Unemployment Seen as Worldwide Risk
A British group called it a “ticking timebomb.” Pope Francis called it a defeat for humanity last year. And the World Economic...
