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1.7KUnion President: Time for Listenbee to Go, OJJDP Has Spiraled Out of Control
WASHINGTON — The head of the union representing employees at the federalOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has called for the...
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3.3KSettlement Houses Laid Foundation for Modern Youth Work
CHICAGO — “Childhood was invented here,” reads a quotation stenciled on a wall inside Hull House, the Chicago settlement house that is...
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Building Skills Through Summer Jobs: Lessons from the Field
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. commissioned this report which takes a comprehensive look at current data and presents a grim outlook on...
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886Public Health Approach Being Adapted for Kids in Trouble with Substances, the Law
Many of the kids in juvenile detention with substance abuse disorders get poor or no treatment, according to Reclaiming Futures, a nonprofit...
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4.0KKids’ Cooking Program Expanding
NEW YORK — Every Tuesday afternoon, a school cafeteria in Brooklyn becomes a professional kitchen staffed by third- and fourth-graders. With the...
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Newsmakers | January-February 2015
Laura Tomasko - Joseph Scantlebury - Sue Cunningham - Jane Campbell - William H. Scheide
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A New Majority: Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools
This new research bulletin authored by the Southern Education Foundation analyzes statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, illustrating the troubling...
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2.9KMany 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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1.9KCovenant 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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2.6KTechnology 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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1.1KYoga, 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....
