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2.8KMany Former Foster Youth Unaware of New Health Care Benefits
NEW YORK — Torren McIntyre steadies his feet on the corner of Erasmus Street and Nostrand Avenue in central Brooklyn and forces...
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2.4KYoung Family Caregivers Face Many Struggles, Get Little Support
When Keyona Vincent was a senior in high school, she dropped out. She wasn’t pregnant or on drugs. She didn’t have any...
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1.8KCovenant House Wraps Support Around Homeless Teens
Three nights a week Todd Wilcher gets in a van and drives down Atlanta streets. He stops at the places homeless kids...
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Quality Counts 2015: Preparing to Launch – Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown
Education Week examines the policies and structures of early-childhood services and programs across the nation. Also in the report is a comprehensive...
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2.5KTechnology on Wheels: Bus Brings Computers to Kids after School
An unusual school bus lumbered down the road in Mitchell County, Ga., but it wasn’t taking kids to or from school. Instead...
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1.6KNew Approach Can Reduce Risky Drug and Alcohol Use Among Kids, Advocates Say
ATLANTA — Drugs and alcohol can cause havoc in the lives of some young people. Adults who work with kids sometimes wonder...
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Levels and Trends of Child Mortality 2014
In 2014, the United Nations Children's Fund and the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation released the latest iteration of its...
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Current Term Enrollment Report – Fall 2014
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently released this latest summary and examination of higher education enrollment statistics. They found, among other...
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The Solitary Confinement of Youth in New York: A Civil Rights Violation
A report prepared by the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights which examines the legality and effects...
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1.1KTeacher, Author Knows How to Talk to Boys about Sexual Violence against Girls
Efforts to stop sexual violence against girls often focus on what girls can do to protect themselves. But what’s being said to...
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Back to School: Exploring Promising Practices for Re-engaging Young People in Secondary Education
America's Promise Alliance's Center for Promise summarizes and discusses the variety of ways in which educators, and those in other sectors, seeking...
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1.0KYoga, Meditation Lessons Work for Some Teens
NEW YORK — On a sunny school day last year, the last thing 20 teenagers seemed interested in was a yoga class....
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1.2KReport: Large-scale Summer Learning Programs Give Kids Jump in Math But Not Reading
Math improved after a voluntary summer learning program, but not reading or social skills, according to a RAND Corporation report released today....
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1.0KOlder Foster Kids Hopeful About Their Future, California Survey Finds
Foster kids moving into adulthood have high aspirations, according to a survey of 727 17-year-olds in the foster care system of California.
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2014 Native Youth Report
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, and his administration recently announced the launch of a new initiative to increase educational...
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1.2KIf the Employee Fits, Hire Her
Hiring the best talent takes more than assessing job skills. It also means knowing how to assess the all-important issue of fit.
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From Intention to Action: Building Diverse, Inclusive Teams in Education to Deepen Impact
The Koya Leadership Partners and Education Pioneers find that nonprofit education foundations, while espousing the benefits of diversity in education, often lack...
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Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration
This report by the Justice Policy Institute analyzes the costs and long-term consequences of states' juvenile detention programs across the nation, finding...
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764Building the Right Board
Imagine conducting a job interview, and you tell the candidate the job doesn’t pay. Then you remind the candidate that he or...
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945After-school Programs Jump into Hour of Coding
Want to learn a little HTML, JavaScript or C? Some after-school programs are helping kids — and their parents — do just...
