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Peter Goldberg, Leader of Major Child Welfare Group, Dies Unexpectedly

Peter Goldberg, CEO of Milwaukee-based Families International for the past 17 years, died on August 12 after suffering a heart attack while...

Social Media Use Can Lead to Mental Health Problems

Social media present risks and benefits to children who use them, but parents who secretly monitor their children’s activity on networking sites...

Volunteering Drops Slightly in 2010

The latest annual edition of Volunteering in America, released today, shows a slight decrease in the number of people volunteering and the...

How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Preparation

How the Effects of Postsecondary Remedial and Developmental Courses Vary by Level of Academic Participation National Center for Postsecondary Research This report...

Volunteering Dropped Slightly in 2010

The latest annual edition of Volunteering in America, released today, shows a slight decrease in the number of people volunteering and the...

A New Way of Measuring College Success

Update: Education Sector has just added all of the data used to determine the debt-to-degree ratio for almost 5,000 schools and programs....

The College Payoff: Education, Occupation, Lifetime Earnings

The steady rise of college costs and the mounds of debt students are shouldering to pay those costs has given rise to...

Youth Villages to Expand Transitional Living Program with $42 million grant

A major multi-state provider of child welfare services will receive perhaps one of the largest grants ever made to a social service...

Integrating Technology with Student-Centered Learning

Nellie Mae Education Foundation Student-centered learning focuses on educational principles and practices that include providing all students with equal access to the...

After Interning on Capitol Hill, Former Foster Youth Challenge Child Welfare’s Accountablity

States should not receive federal funding for foster care if they are not providing high-quality services, caseworkers should not be allowed to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...