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2.3KBaltimore Adults Seek ‘Teachable Moments’ for Youths After Riots
Even before riots broke out this week in the Sandtown-Winchester section of Baltimore over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in police...
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1.7KDistinguished Gentlemen Present Their Truths Through Spoken Word
Founded by Honey Bell-Bey — known to the group as Ms. Honey — the Distinguished Gentlemen meets two afternoons a week and...
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State Higher Education Finance FY 2014
This report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) association utilizes the latest possible data to present an overview of the...
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2.6KThe Credible Messengers: Youth Organize to Save Our Streets
Youth Organizing to Save Our Streets trains teens to be leaders and organizers in their neighborhood and mentors them on how to...
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5.1KHaitian Teen Falls Into Trap of Dysfunctional Justice System
When 13-year-old Camesuze Jean Pierre entered the iron gates of the Petionville women’s prison, she feared she would never get out.
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National Autism Indicators Report: Transition Into Young Adulthood
The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute provides a comprehensive look at the rarely-researched outcomes of autistic youth during and after the transition into...
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1.9K99% of Kids Suffer Less Abuse in Scarce Safe Babies Courts
The dirty little secret about family courts — where kids and parents who’ve entered the child welfare system end up — is...
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1.0KAfter-school Funding Reinstated in Senate Education Bill
Fear that after-school funding will die ebbed a bit as the U.S. Senate education committee affirmed its support for a major federal...
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833South LA High School Takes New Approach to Curbing Suspension Rates
When high school sophomore Mykia Moore got into an argument with her best friend over a boy last year at Augustus Hawkins...
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A Matter of Equity: Preschool in America
The U.S. Dept. of Education recently released this report which sheds light on the problem of unequal access to early childhood education....
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Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015
The Pew Research Center collected data and analyzed it to produce this report which provides a comprehensive and detailed look at the...
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584‘No Child’ Rewrite Shifts School Accountability to States, Does not Renew After-School Funding
A federal after-school program hangs in limbo as the Senate education committee forges ahead to rewrite “No Child Left Behind” — but...
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512Safe Housing for Youth, Other Factors Key to Beating Addiction
One of the biggest holes in the net of services to treat teens with addictions lies not in what happens during residential...
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1.4KGet the Big Picture When Seeking Funding: Create a Fiscal Map
The key reason an agency or community coalition does a fiscal map is “not to find huge pots of money that are...
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Child Mental Illness Widespread, yet Untreated
It’s no secret that young people with mental disorders are more likely to drop out of school, be arrested, experience homelessness and...
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1.9KSchools Remove Barriers to Mental Health Treatment
School-based health programs are teaming up with youth-development groups to deliver vital ongoing services to one group of vulnerable students: children with...
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913Spring Break Is No Picnic for Some Parents
When spring break rolls around, kids are delighted to have a vacation from school. But for working parents with limited time off,...
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2.2KTeens Work With Legislators to Bring Change
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate and the largest prison population of any country in the world. On any given day,...
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More Than a Salary: Summer Job Provides Important Lessons on Work and Life
When Myles Davis found out about Milwaukee’s Summer Youth Internship Program — a component of the Mayor’s Earn & Learn Program that...
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1.8KMilwaukee’s Summer Jobs Program Grows Despite Funding Falloff
When Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett calls local employers and foundation leaders to drum up support for “Earn & Learn” — a summer...
