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Treatment of Abuse of Drugs Like Xanax and Valium Is Up Sharply
Treatment for abusing benzodiazepine – a class of drugs including Xanax, Valium and Halcion that is commonly used to treat insomnia, seizures...
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AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue
The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...
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Running Away from Foster Care: Youths’ Knowledge and Access of Services
The Urban Institute, Chapin Hall (University of Chicago) A new study from the University of Chicago showed that high percentages of young...
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AmeriCorps Announces $216 Million in Grants
AmeriCorps today announced $216 million in grants for the about 300 organizations, specifically chosen to implement the areas of service emphasized in...
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Education Department Sets Guidelines for For-Profit ‘Trial’ Admissions
The recently announced gainful employment rules aren’t the only new projects the U.S. Education Department has in store for for-profit colleges. Education...
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Student Health Essential to Increase Academic Performance
California Healthy Students Research Project The California Healthy Students Research Project is aimed at finding a link between student performance and physical...
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Alliance for Children and Families to Help Some Members Emphasize Strategy
The Alliance for Children and Families, a major trade group, has received a four-year, $5,375,000 grant to help 19 of its 350...
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The Bottom Line
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance It seems like such a simple concept: a calculator on a school’s website that enables prospective...
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Weakened ‘Gainful Employment’ Rules Released
The final “gainful employment” rules released today by the U.S. Department of Education rely more on requiring schools and colleges that offer...
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Promoting Full-Time Attendance among Adults in Community College
MDRC This report by MDRC evaluates a New York City program that is targeted at low-income adults ages 22 to 35 who...
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House Passes Waiver Program for Child Welfare Systems
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend the federal government’s waiver program for child welfare systems, which has...
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Priced Out: How the Wrong Financial-Aid Policies Hurt Low-Income Students
The Education Trust Students from middle-income families often benefit more from higher education scholarship and grant programs than do the lower income...
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Children in Foster Care Down 22 Percent in Decade
The total number of children in foster care continues to decline – down about 22 percent from 2000 to 2009 – new...
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Six of 10 Texas High School Seniors Have Been Suspended, Expelled or Arrested
More Texas students have been suspended or expelled than have not, according to a forthcoming study of state trends on school discipline....
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Four AmeriCorps Teams Assist with Disaster in Joplin, Mo.
Stephanie Jackson says she never thought she would need the disaster portion of her AmeriCorps leadership training. But since a tornado struck...
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Obama Names Interim Director for CNCS
Robert Velasco II, the chief operating officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, today was designated the interim chief executive...
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For-Profit College Enrollment Grew 50-Fold from 1980 to 2009
The National Center for Education Statistics massive annual report, The Condition of Education, released today focuses on the rise of for-profit postsecondary...
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Supreme Court Declines to Rule on Fourth Amendment Rights in Child Abuse Interviews
The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to rule on the constitutional questioned posed by Camreta v. Greene and Alford v. Greene, cases...
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Report: In D.C., Summer is Never the Peak of Juvenile Arrests
A report released today by the group D.C. Lawyers for Youth challenges the widely held belief that notable spikes in juvenile offenses...
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Labor Department Stripped $10 Million from YouthBuild USA, Corps Network
A pair of $10 million grants to two national youth-serving organizations designed to help dropouts and young adult offenders gain marketable skills...
