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Medical Marijuana Laws Don’t Increase Adolescent Use, Study Says

Medical marijuana laws have no effect on the likelihood a young person will smoke pot, according to a new report. The study,...

Higher Interest Rates Leave Some Students Uneasy about Taking on More College Debt

Americans owe nearly a trillion dollars in outstanding student loans, according to a 2012 announcement from the Federal Reserve Bank of New...

Justice Policy Institute Brings in Advocate as Executive Director

Marc Schindler has worked “outside” the justice system as a litigator and advocate, but also in the trenches of a juvenile justice...

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Tighter Income Requirements for Child Care Assistance in Kentucky

Beginning this month, maximum income requirements for some child care services in Kentucky will become more restrictive, with the cutoff for a...

New KIDS COUNT Data Reveals Both Improvements and Failings in Child Wellbeing

The latest numbers from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book finds mixed results for the nation’s youth —...

Charter Schools Improving but Success is Uneven, Duncan Says

WASHINGTON, D.C.–Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is tired of the vacillating “good news, bad news” stories that always seem to describe charter...

New USDA Rules Keep Candy from School Vending Machines

Beginning next year, fruits and other healthy foods will replace candy bars and cans of soda in school vending machines thanks to...

Types of Alcohol Use Experience From Childhood Through Adolescence

The Comeback States – Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States

The Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Planning for Nonprofits

Consider strategic planning “the shelter and water” a nonprofit needs to sustain, said Ana Cortez an expert in strategic planning who helps...

Alcohol Use Common Among Kids, Study Says

Two out of five second-graders have tasted alcohol, a number that shoots up to six out of ten for 12-year-olds, according to...

Supreme Court Rules on Native American Adoption Case

Arriving quietly Wednesday between the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage was a ruling that will have lasting and significant impacts...

Experiment increases number of low-income applicants to selective colleges

WASHINGTON–Nicole Hurd has met many stellar low-income students who believe college is not an option for them.  As director of the National...

Most U.S. Kids Don’t Get Enough Exercise, Says NIH

According to a new study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), most young people in the United States...

16 Million U.S. Children Live in Poverty, Says New Report

New data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation reveals the number of children living in poverty increased by nearly a quarter from...

VISTA’s Lasting Lessons

When asked to write a reflection on my experience as a VISTA volunteer, my response was similar to Dorothy Parker’s in the...

Agencies: Diversity Essential to Maximizing Outreach Potential

When the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) held its annual meeting three or four years ago, a representative of one of its...

Two ‘Cool Girls’ Beat the Odds

“You still have all this stuff?” Erica Gibson, a 32-year-old computer application developer consultant, cannot believe that Joan Thomas — her childhood...

Consistency and Commitment Key to Successful Mentoring

As a broadcast journalist, Joan Thomas said that a large part of her profession entailed chronicling the worst aspects of humanity. Youth...