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Unlocking Opportunity for African American Girls: A Call to Action for Educational Equity
The National Women's Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund shine a light on the factors and barriers which...
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Supporting and Caring for our Bisexual Youth
A new report by the Human Rights Campaign in partnership with BiNet USA, Bisexual Organizing Project and the Bisexual Resource Center which...
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859Week in Review: Drug Amnesty Laws, Solitary Confinement and Violence
This week on Youth Today: Georgia is the 15th U.S. state to pass a law ensuring those who call 911 in case...
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1.0KOnly 15 States Have Drug Amnesty Laws to Protect Overdosers, Friends
The new Georgia law and others like it around the country speak to a growing, new national response to drug abuse, addiction...
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982Federal Spending on Kids to Increase Only 2 Percent Over Next Decade
Children’s programs are projected to receive only 2 cents on every dollar of a $1.4 trillion increase in federal spending over the...
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Newsmakers | September-October 2014
Phoebe Boyer - William D. Adams - Beth Swanson - David Campbell - G. Bryan Fleming
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1.4KSouth Bronx Teens ‘Shell-Shocked’ by New Orleans Violence
“Shell Shocked,” a movie filled with death, violence and schoolroom chaos, disoriented the young Bronx audience. In New York, with stringent laws,...
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Kids’ Share 2014: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2013
The Urban Institute's annual report that breaks down and analyzes the numbers when it comes to federal spending and tax expenditures on...
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Absences Add Up: How School Attendance Influences Student Success
Attendance Works analyzes national testing data and data on student attendance from across the country, demonstrating the consistent link between the two.
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3.4KGot Grit? What Is It? Do Kids Need It?
In her research, Duckworth, who was awarded a MacArthur “genius grant,” found that the main characteristic that predicted academic success among the...
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1.9KInitiative Helps Mormon Family Accept Son’s Homosexuality
When Christy Searle found out her 14-year-old son Zach was gay, she thought about all the dreams she had envisioned for him....
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Census: Nearly 1 in 5 Children in U.S. in Poverty
Nearly one in five children in the United States lived in poverty last year, with a much higher proportion of poverty among...
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770Children’s Rights Groups Against Giving School Cops Military Hardware
More than 20 national education and civil rights advocates sent a letter Monday to Department of Defense officials, urging them to stop...
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3.4KLGBTQ: New Center Links Civil Rights Movement to Human Rights
The center, which opened June 23, packs a punch, with music, archival TV footage, beautiful visual and interactive displays of the civil...
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Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness
In its third iteration, this report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation seeks to statistically analyze, rank and grade the school...
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Education at a Glance 2014: OECD Indicators
The OECD's annual publication on the state of education around the world.
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1.7KSigns of Sadness: Children Dealing with Death
ATLANTA — Bravely bearing the burden of taking care of a very sick parent can take a toll on children, particularly if...
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637Teachers, Researchers Praising Longer School Days
Students at Casimir Pulaski Elementary School in Meriden, Connecticut, are arriving back to school to 100 extra minutes of school each day....
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609Study: Two Years of Music Education Improves Reading, Speech
Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois believe that musical training plays an important role in educational achievement.
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Hidden in Plain Sight – A Statistical Analysis of Violence Against Children
UNICEF compiles data from 190 countries to provide a comprehensive, detailed report on the prevalence of violence against children worldwide, analyzing its...
