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Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into Opportunity
Civic Pathways Out of Poverty and Into OpportunityPhilanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) The majority of children living in poverty are of...
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Education Department Hears from Small For-Profits On New Regs
The Department of Education’s public meetings on the gainful employment rule Thursday provided a pedestal for numerous, and repetitive, arguments on yet-to-be...
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Suicide Forces Attention on Plight of Older Foster Youth
The suicide of a teenager shortly after aging out of foster care has ignited a public debate in Hawaii about the struggles...
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City Roles in Creating High School Alternatives for Struggling Students
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the National League of Cities to work with five cities (Corpus Christi, Texas; Hartford, Conn.;...
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Expanding Career Readiness Through Online Learning
A quick summary of how online learning, mostly in career and technical education, can be used to improve academic and employability skills....
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Common Ground: Education and the Military Meeting the Needs of Students
Educators can adapt many of the best practices the military applies to instruct secondary students enrolled in a cross-section of programs, including...
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Study Says Nurse Visitation Helps Rural Teens
As the federal government pours more money into nurse home visitation programs for new mothers, a study released this week indicates two...
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Variations in Pregnancy Outcomes Following a Statewide Implementation of a Prenatal Home Visitation Program
As the federal government pours more money into nurse home visitation programs for new mothers, a study released this week indicates two...
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Designing and Conducting Impact Studies in Education: Lessons Learned From the What Works Clearinghouse
The U.S. Department of Education established the What Works Clearinghouse in 2002 to serve as a “central and trusted source of scientific...
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America’s Promise?
In the 13 years since America’s Promise Alliance was founded under the leadership of Gen. Colin Powell and his wife, Alma, the...
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Community Colleges in Demand
At Bunker Hill Community College, fall enrollment broke another record, topping 12,000 students. To accommodate so many students, the Boston school now...
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Will It Ever Be More Than a DREAM?
Hundreds of activists converged on Washington in late September, pushing for what is beginning to seem like only a dream: passage of...
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Justice Initiates New Study of Juveniles Transferred to Adult Courts
For the first time in more than a decade, the U.S. Department of Justice is attempting to gather data about the least-known...
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It Gets Better’: A Message Resonates
When a 15-year-old Indiana boy who had been taunted because he was gay hanged himself in September, Dan Savage, a columnist for...
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Minorities in Higher Education 2010
American Council on Education Higher education attainment rates for college-aged African-Americans and Hispanics have dropped across the board, according to this report...
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Pathways Out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians: Policies that Prepare the Workforce for Middle-Skill Infrastructure Jobs
PolicyLink This report, by the Oakland, Calif.-based PolicyLink, finds that community colleges “are one of [California’s] key vehicles for economic mobility and...
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Finishing the First Lap: The Cost of First-Year Student Attrition in America’s Four-Year Colleges and Universities
American Institutes for Research Drawing on the Obama administration’s plan to implement changes that would move the country up from its current...
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Household, Family and Child Risk Factors After an Investigation for Suspected Child Maltreatment
Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Investigations by Child Protective Services in the United States in cases of suspected maltreatment did not...
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Uninsured Children: Who Are They and Where Do They Live?
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Though the number of uninsured children has been declining since the late 1990s, as many as 9.3 million...
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Newsmakers for November 2010
Nonprofits It’s lean times for many national youth work organizations, but the Denver-based American Humane Association is beefing up its child-focused staff....
