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Has One Georgia County’s ‘Virtual’ Alternative School Failed Troubled Students?

In an experiment lasting one school year, Clayton County, Ga. handed out laptops to its most challenged students and sent them home...

UPDATED: Supreme Court Forbids Mandatory Life Sentences Without Parole for Juveniles

UPDATED Tuesday, 9:23 a.m.: WASHINGTON – Advocates for juvenile justice reform applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 5-to-4 ruling yesterday that children under 18...

Justices’ Ruling on Young Killers Eases Anxieties for Some Experts, Advocates

The violence that stains Chicago is a long way from Washington, D.C., where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday it was not...

Citizen Advisers for State Juvenile Justice Programs Gather in DC

WASHINGTON – A mix of around 250 child welfare workers, law enforcement officials, public officials and nonprofit employees from 49 states and territories,...

Suspense Builds in Advance of Supreme Court Ruling on Juvenile Sentencing

While most of the nation anxiously awaits a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the federal health care...

July 1 Deadline Looms for Rise in Student Loan Interest Rates

WASHINGTON – With only 10 days to go before interest rates on some government-subsidized student loans are to double, Democrats and Republicans...

Researchers Say Graduated Drivers Licenses May Keep Teens From Drinking and Driving

The report, conducted by researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, evaluated teen driving laws in 45 states....

Three Years On, Watchdog Nominee Advances in Senate

WASHINGTON -The country’s largest funder of service and volunteer programs is one step closer to filling a leadership vacancy at its watchdog...

Kids and Guns: Two Cities, Two Very Different Approaches to Gun Control

Headlines from Dallas and Chicago over the past few days seem to underscore that the debate over gun rights, following the Trayvon...

United States Will Stop Deporting Young Undocumented Immigrants Under New Policy

The Obama administration will no longer deport and begin granting work permits to young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States...

Sandusky’s Lessons: Six Keys to Creating an Effective Child Protection Policy

The Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case has shone a harsh light on the limitations of the child protection policies put in place...

L.A. School Police, District Agree to Rethink Court Citations of Students

This story originally appeared on iWatchnews.org by the Center for Public Integrity. In the wake of critical news reports, Los Angeles school police and...

Growing up LGBT in America: Youth Survey Report

State’s DREAM Act Turned Over to Voters by Maryland’s High Court

WASHINGTON -The highest court in the state of Maryland has cleared the way for voters this fall to determine the fate of...

Boy Scout ‘Perversion Files’ ordered Released by Oregon High Court

Some 20,000 pages of so-called perversion files compiled by the Boy Scouts of America and going back more than 20 years, will...

Oregon Supreme Court Orders Boy Scouts to Make Sex Abuse Files Public

WASHINGTON -An extraordinary collection of nearly 1,250 secret files kept by the Boy Scouts of America to document cases of child sex...

UK Advocates Turning to NYC as Model for ‘Saner’ Criminal Justice System

But then something remarkable happened, according to Greg Berman, author of the recent report “A Thousand Small Sanities: Crime Control Lessons from...

New CDC Report Shines Light on Teen Suicide Trends

The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States 2011, published last week...

A Thousand Small Sanities: Crime Control Lessons from New York

More Health Insurance Providers Back Coverage for Adult Children

WASHINGTON – Three major health insurance companies have announced they will continue to provide coverage to dependent children on family plans until...