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Major Layoffs Expected for New Orleans’ Juvenile Court in 2013

Massive cuts are expected for New Orleans’ Juvenile Court, with more than 30 employees expected to be removed from the city’s payroll in...

Where Foxfire Still Glows

It’s first period, in late September, and students in the Foxfire Magazine class at Rabun County High School, in northeast Georgia, are doing what many...

Prison Photography: A Memory Divided

Hundreds of thousands of people see inside the places and spaces where we lock up young members of our society. On any given day,...

California Non-Profit Treats Gun Violence as a Public Health Issue

The California Wellness Foundation has spent decades treating gun violence against youth as a public health issue. In doing so, the Foundation...

In the Wake of Tragedy, Should Schools Have Armed Personnel on Campus?

The national debate about gun-control laws was re-ignited following last week’s tragic Newtown, Conn. school shooting, with proponents of both sides taking...

When Terrible Things Happen: Helping Children Heal

This story was first published by CNN.  Editor’s note: Former CNN correspondent Pat Etheridge is a journalist specializing in children’s health and family...

Experts Address Importance of Depression Screening and Treatment for Low-Income Mothers

The Urban Institute held an event Dec. 13 in Washington, D.C. titled “Helping Depressed Low-Income Mothers Give Their Young Children a Good...

After Newtown Shooting, Answers May Be Found in Decade-old Government Report

The details of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are slowly coming to light, but a government document issued a decade ago...

Day Before Connecticut Massacre, Michigan Legislators OK Bill Allowing Guns in Schools, Daycare Centers

Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children

Reading Achievement of U.S. Fourth-Grade Students in an International Context

Mathematics and Science Achievement of U.S. Fourth- and Eighth-Grade Students in an International Context

Officials Release New Details in Elementary School Massacre

On Saturday, Newtown, Conn. officials released the names of the 20 children and six adults slain in last Friday’s shooting spree at...

Remembering Elementary School Shootings of the Past

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre Nov. 14 constitutes the second deadliest mass school shooting incident in American history, second only to...

Support for Federal Youth Advisory Council Grows

Advocates are ramping up pressure on the White House to appoint a bipartisan advisory council made up of community leaders under the...

Sex Ed: A Complicated Equation For CPS

Story courtesy of The Chicago Bureau.  CHICAGO — Every fall, when Jeff Frecka teaches health to his class of ninth graders, he knows...

Childhood Trauma Threatens National Well-Being: DOJ Task Force

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two out of three children in the United States experience or witness violence, crime or abuse while growing up,...

UPDATE: More than Two Dozen Killed, Among Them 20 Children, in One of Nation’s Worst School Shooting Massacres

In one of the deadliest mass shootings in United States history, 27 people – among them, 20 children – are reported dead...

Students in Coaching-Centered Writing Program Post Statistically Significant Gains

Wednesday, New York-based nonprofit Teaching Matters released a new report detailing pilot study results from its Writing Matters curriculum.  In a two-year...

U.S. Senate Subcommittee Hears Testimony on School-to-Prison Pipeline

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Twenty-year-old Edward Ward (pictured left), a sophomore on the honor roll at DePaul University, tried to describe to U.S. Sens....