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Senate Approps Cuts Federal Juvenile Programs Deeply, But Funds All of Them
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a spending bill this afternoon that would fund the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs...
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Results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Use of illicit drugs by youth is still way down from earlier in the decade,...
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The Impact of Bullying Climate on Schoolwide Academic Performance
Virginia Youth Violence Project The pervasiveness of bullying has an effect on the academic performance of students, according to findings from the...
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Downward Mobility from the Middle Class: Waking Up from the American Dream
The Pew Charitable Trusts One-third of Americans who grow up in a middle-class family, defined as between 30 percent and 70 percent...
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College Default Rate Rises to 8.8 percent
The overall two-year default rates of students with federal student loans rose to 8.8 percent last year, from 7 percent a year...
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Obama Plan Includes Summer Jobs for Youth, Unemployment Protection for Families
Note: This article was updated and corrected Sept. 9. President Barack Obama laid out a job creation plan tonight that includes funding...
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Report Pushes Advocates to Seek Structural, Not Just Financial, Changes to Juvenile Justice Systems
The time is ripe for some states to reduce their reliance on youth incarceration, according to a report issued today by a...
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Newsmakers September 2011
Nonprofits The Girl Scouts of the USA selected one of its own to succeed Kathy Cloninger as its chief executive officer. Anna...
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Child Maltreatment: Strengthening National Data on Child Fatalities Could Aid in Prevention,
Government Accountability Office Officially, the number of children who died of maltreatment in the United States in 2009 was 1,770. That’s the...
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Remedial Education
Some call it the Bermuda Triangle of higher education. Some see it as a needless expense – double payment for students to...
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Collateral Damage
What American news outlet hasn’t carried a heart-wrenching picture of a 5- or 6-year old sobbing uncontrollably as the father or mother...
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The Plight of Unaccompanied Mexican Minors
In December 2010, Washington attorney Jennifer Podkul received a call from the Department of Homeland Security inspector general’s office, asking to speak...
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Who Can Protect Youth Spending This Year?
As Congress prepares this month to take on a full slate of federal spending bills, research on federal expenditures from the Urban...
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Youth Today Breakdown of State Spending on Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Youth
Last Updated: August 15 Since the U.S. economy went into a tailspin in 2008, states have faced tough choices on spending. Significant...
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Education Dept. Official Joins “Textbook Rebellion” Rally
A rally in a Washington-area suburb today officially launched the Textbook Rebellion, a campaign aimed at ensuring affordable textbooks for college students,...
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One in Five Teens Report Being Bullied Online
Nearly one of every five kids between age 12 and 17 report being “cyber bullied,” according to a recent survey that examined...
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Girls Scouts Names Anna Maria Chávez New CEO
The Girl Scouts of the USA selected one of its own to succeed Kathy Cloninger as its chief executive officer. Anna Maria...
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Staying on Track: Early Findings from a Performance-Based Scholarship Program at the University of New Mexico
MDRC An experimental scholarship program at the University of New Mexico that provides extra income for low-income students who keep up their...
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Making Every Diploma Count: Using Extended-Year Graduation Rates to Measure Student Success
American Youth Policy Forum (AYPF), Gateway to College National Network and the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) This issue brief argues that...
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Obama Halts DREAM Act Deportations
It won’t give any illegal immigrants a new passage to U.S. citizenship, but the Obama administration announced today that it will stop...
