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Some College, No Degree: A National View of Students with Some College Enrollment, but No Completion
A report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and the Project on Academic Success at Indiana University which discusses the economic...
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1.9KFootball Practice of ‘Two-a-Days’ Phasing Out
The competitiveness of football — teams battling rivals, high school teenagers clawing for scholarships — has created a generation of ambitious players...
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1.1KGathering Data for Grants Gets Trickier
The current appetite for data is taking a bite out of some youth organizations. Nonprofits that serve youth are finding that funders...
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935Nearly $200M Pledged to Help Boys of Color
Eleven major foundations have pledged to spend a total of nearly $200 million for efforts to help boys and young men of...
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Common Core Goes to College: Building Better Connections Between High School and Higher Education
The New America Foundation analyzes the misalignment between higher education and K-12 education since the adoption of the Common Core Standards and...
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Perception of Weight Status in U.S. Children and Adolescents, Aged 8–15 Years
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which illustrates the way American youth misperceive their weight status.
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Missing the Point: The Real Impact of Native Mascots and Team Names on American Indian and Alaska Native Youth
A research report by the Center for American Progress which analyzes and makes policy recommendations about the mental impact racially-derogatory Native American...
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Lessons from the Youth-Driven Spaces Project
Back to main article Four years ago, the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor, Mich., worked with eight local organizations seeking a more...
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1.3KWhere Kids Run the Show: Developing Youth Leaders
A teenager who first encountered the Neutral Zone for gay, lesbian and gender-questioning youth at 15 is now, two years later, on...
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Bill Would Remove Obstacles for Aid for Homeless Children
WASHINGTON – Bipartisan legislation to eliminate obstacles that deny federal assistance to nearly one million homeless children was introduced July 24, according...
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1.6KThe Need for Speed Endangers Young Pitchers
ATLANTA — Baseball scouts and coaches, please hide your radar guns that track the speed of pitches thrown. If you can’t hide...
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The 2014 KIDS COUNT Data Book
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's annual comprehensive report assessing the well-being of children across the nation and ranking states based on an...
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1.5KKids’ Health, Education Improve, but Economic Well-Being Doesn’t, Report Says
The report provides a glimpse over a 25-year span — this year marks the foundation’s 25th consecutive year of measuring the well-being...
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1.0KIn New Orleans, School and Health Care Decentralization Affect Neediest Children
In recent years, New Orleans has become a case study in how children and families are affected by rapid decentralization of public...
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2.0KMusic Program Helps Homeless, Runaway Youth Follow their Dreams
At 14, Kayla Avitabile is the artist-in-residence at Valley Youth House, which provides shelter and services for homeless and runaway kids through...
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Federal Funding for Students with Disabilities: The Evolution of Federal Special Education Finance in the U.S.
A policy brief and analysis of the history of special education funding and grant allocation in the U.S. by the New America...
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LA’s BEST Serves up Innovative Smorgasbord of Fun, Learning
The LA’s BEST after-school program Carla Sanger has run for 26 years has enjoyed backing from five consecutive mayors of Los Angeles,...
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1.6KCarla Sanger — Pioneering After-School Programming
Carla Sanger’s father, Harold Galperin, a beloved principal at Baltimore City’s largest elementary school in the 1950s, taught her some of the...
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Left Behind: How LGBT Young People Are Excluded from Economic Prosperity
The Center for American Progress analyzes the disproportionate challenges LGBT youth face in the post-recession economy and makes policy recommendations that can...
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Moving Beyond Marriage: What Young People of Color Think about the LGBT Agenda
A report by the Black Youth Project which studies the attitudes of young people (particularly those of color) towards the LGBT rights...
