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1.6KWhy Should Cities Invest in After-school Programs? Five Mayors Explain
After-school programs are helping reduce gang activity, crime and child obesity, five mayors of U.S. cities said Tuesday at the National After-School...
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1.9KSocial Time Needs Good Social Media Policy
Wherever kids go today, social media goes, too. In fact, in a recent study by Common Sense Media, 41 percent of teens...
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
This report by the National Center for Juvenile Justice provides a nation-wide and comprehensive analysis of juvenile crime, victimization, and the juvenile...
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Campaign Pushes New York City to Hike Social Service Workers’ Pay to $15 an Hour
Frontline social service workers are often underpaid and don’t have opportunities for advancement. Now two New York City agencies are pushing the...
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985Vital Ingredient Missing in Children’s Lives: Nature
“The child in nature is an endangered species,” wrote Richard Louv. His 2005 book, “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children...
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1.2KWhat Happened to Summertime Play?
Cynthia Gentry, founder of the Atlanta Task Force on Play, remembers the summers of her childhood: She’d leave home in the morning...
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3.7KDocumentary on Homeless Teens in Chicago Aims to ‘Show the Struggle’
Think being a teenager was tough? Imagine going through that period without a steady roof over your head. That’s the tale that...
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America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future
The Education Testing Service takes a troubling look at the state of the upcoming generation's competency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving...
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Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom
This new white paper prepared by the Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance examines the efficacy and scope of digital learning...
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1.5KWhy Do Low-Income Kids Suffer So Much Summer Learning Loss?
Call it summer learning loss, summer slide or brain drain. The loss of critical reading and math skills among children during the...
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1.5KInnovative Summer Learning Program Expands Kids’ ‘Horizons’
CHESTERTOWN, Md. — Jack the Beagle proved a big hit in Randy Decker’s fourth-grade class. Decker’s students loved reading to the dog,...
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1.8KIn Brooklyn, Green Space With Nowhere to Play
NEW YORK — Down a long hallway, through electric blue double doors, the squeaks of young people’s sneakers echoed from P.S. K753’s...
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2.4KCatching Emotional and Developmental Problems in Homeless Children
A look inside the state’s homeless shelters quickly reveals a sobering fact — many residents are children. And a substantial number of...
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Surviving the Streets of New York: Experiences of LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex
This new study by the Urban Institute documents the lives of vulnerable LGBTQ (and other) youth in New York City and makes...
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After-school Advocates Lobby Legislators to Save 21st Century Program
As federal funding for after-school programs continues to swing in the breeze, after-school advocates are seeking to make their presence felt on...
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2.6KAt Senn High School, Diversity Drives Education
“We have to get creative,” Lofton said. “There is no teacher that we could possibly find that could deliver ESL education as...
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1.4KTrying to Get Their Code On in the South Bronx
NEW YORK — On a freezing Saturday morning in a brick building in the south Bronx, young people with laptops filled a...
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1.1KNew Orleans Filmmaker Hopes to Get the ‘91%’ Out of Movie Seats, Into Ballot Box
NEW YORK — The filmmaker could not get the number out of his head. Even while he was traveling the country to...
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Comprehensive Community Initiatives – Case Studies of Programs in Atlanta, Orlando and New Orleans
America's Promise Alliance presents a three-part report highlighting the achievements of three transformative community development efforts from three different southern cities and...
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Research Points to Impact of Endangered 21st Century After-school Programs
Studies in four states show positive results for the national after-school program currently on the congressional chopping block. The grant program known...
