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Healthy Youth / Healthy Regions: Informing Action for the Nine County Capital Region (Calif.) and Its Youth
UC Davis Center for Regional Change, Sierra Health Foundation, and The California Endowment The study examines and documents the connections between youth...
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Debt Ceiling Agreement Preserves Pell Grants — For Now
The agreement reached Sunday night among Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate provides specific funding for Pell Grants, but...
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Republicans Eye Cuts to Pell Grants to Gain Tea Party Votes
Supporters of Pell Grants for low-income college students put out an urgent appeal to mobilize students to blitz their congressional representatives for...
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Seven States Comply with Federal Sex Offender Registry at Deadline
Note: This article was initially posted on July 27 and updated on July 28 Seven more states have come into substantial compliance...
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System Overload: The Costs of Under-Resourcing Public Defense
Justice Policy Institute Public defense systems across the United States are overburdened, according to this new report from the Justice Policy Institute. ...
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Early Childhood Policy Focus: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Child Trends This brief analyzes data and current research on the nutritional and exercise habits of children under the age of 6...
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$4.46 Million Spent in Second Quarter Lobbying against ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules
At least $4.46 million was spent lobbying on federal student loan issues over the second quarter of the year – mostly in...
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Kids’ Share 2011: Report on Federal Expenditures on Children through 2010
The Brookings Institution and The Urban Institute The fifth annual Kids’ Share report represents a milestone in the analysis and reporting of...
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Tweets, E-mails Fly to ‘Save Pell’
Students are planning to take on the government in their media today, staging a one-day blitz of tweets, emails and other electronic...
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Secondhand Smoke and Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Adolescents
Archives of Otolaryngology Secondhand smoke, the perils of which continue to grow, has now been linked to possible hearing loss in adolescents....
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A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
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A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students
Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...
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The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation
Urban Institute This new evaluation by researchers from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (UI-JPC), RTI International (RTI) and the Center for...
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Texas Study on Suspension and Expulsion: A Look at the Major Findings
A report on school discipline released this week by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Public Policy Research Institute could...
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Obama Administration to Fight Harsh School Discipline
The U.S. Justice and Education departments are making disruption of the “school to prison” pipeline – which can begin with minor school...
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Achievement Trends of Schools and Students in Arizona’s Title I School Improvement Program
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) This report describes how Arizona public schools found to need improvement under Title I of No Child...
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National Postsecondary Enrollment Trends Before, During and After the Great Recession
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center This report spotlights national and regional college enrollment trends among traditional-age, first-time students during the fall...
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‘Beyond Scared Straight’ Renewed for Second Season
“Beyond Scared Straight,” a popular and controversial cable television reality show that was criticized by Department of Justice officials for depicting a...
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House Committee Votes to Strip Restrictions on Title I, Other Funds
The House Education and the Workforce Committee voted today – strictly along party lines – to allow local school districts to spend...
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House Appropriations Committee Eliminates Most Juvenile Justice Funding
A spending bill that eliminates most federal funding for juvenile justice activities was approved today by the House Appropriations Committee, and is...
