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1.7KThe 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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1.1KIn 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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2.1KMusic 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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1.7KCarla 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...
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866Building Bridges to Meet Kids’ Needs
The Bridge Teen Center offers after-school and summertime programs aimed at providing recreation and homework help for seventh- through 12th-graders. But many...
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Mentoring Program Wraps from Home to School and Back
The decade-old Incentive Mentoring Program (now known as Thread) in Baltimore currently serves 150 students, ages 14 to 25, with 800 volunteers,...
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Newsmakers | July-August 2014
Jonathan P. Raymond - Steven Maze Rothstein - Samuel Halperin - Ted Mitchell - John C. Lechleiter - Stacey Childress
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TV Watching and Computer Use in U.S. Youth Aged 12–15, 2012
A data brief by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics which reports national estimates on television watching and computer use among...
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Closing the Race Gap: Alleviating Young African American Unemployment Through Education
A policy brief by Young Invincibles which analyzes the factors behind marked racial disparities in the job market and illustrates how expanding...
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2.4KIncreased OST Connections Provide Continued Benefits
One morning in January, 80 teachers, principals and after-school staffers gathered in a large conference room at the Nashville Public Library to...
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Return on Educational Investment: A District-by-District Evaluation of U.S. Educational Productivity
A report by the Center for American Progress which examines the productivity and effectiveness of every major school district in the nation.
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785No Test for Autism? You Can Still Play a Role
If only there were a strep-like test for illnesses of the brain — disorders and maladies such as autism, anxiety disorders, depression...
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1.5KKeep Legal Protections for Kids Crossing Border, Rights Groups Say
As President Obama visits Texas this week, he is urging Congress to add immigration judges and detention facilities to speed up the...
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Youth Today and NHSA Announce New Partnership
KENNESAW, Ga. — More than 50 member organizations comprising the National Human Services Assembly’s National Collaboration for Youth will receive discounted subscriptions...
