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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....
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Youth Workers in the Mix on Election Day
A few youth workers and advocates may find themselves holding new positions within government following the November 2nd elections. A handful of...
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Potential Leadership Changes in Congress After Election
While the exact makeup of next year’s 112th Congress will be anyone’s guess until Tuesday, one thing is for certain: across-the-board changes...
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Report Questions the Value of Character Education
A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...
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Use of Title IX Has Worked against Sexual Orientation Bullying
The Department of Education put schools on notice this week that failure to police a pattern of bullying could result in a...
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Privatizing Child Welfare Gets Painful
The move to privatize child welfare services, which some states have pursued as a cornerstone of reform, has become painful for just...
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College Board Report Finds Tuition, Grant Aid Increasing
The price of going to any type of college was up again this year, but the actual cost went down for many...
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New Coalition to Focus on Service-Learning’s Role in Education
The St. Paul, Minn.-based National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) is organizing a national coalition of leaders to think about education policy and...
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Nearly Half of Energy Consumed by Kids are “Empty” calories
Where Kids Get Their Empty Calories America’s children are in large part ignoring the layout of the food pyramid, according to a...
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Education Department to Schools: Protect Against Bullying or Risk Federal Funding
The Department of Education (DOE) notified schools and colleges today that it intends to penalize systems that refuse to address pervasive problems...
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College Student Debt Increases
Student Debt and the Class of 2009 The Project on Student Debt This report, fifth in an annual series that examines cumulative...
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Latino Youth Hopeful Despite Stereotyping In Schools
Speaking Out: Latino Youth on Discrimination in the United States National Council of La Raza Many Latino teens feel regularly stereotyped in...
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Young People Turn More Sour on Politics
As Election Day draws closer, America’s youngest potential voters grow more glum. Over the past year, 18- to 29-year-olds have become less...
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CWLA to Obama: Where’s the Youth Conference?
The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) felt a bit put out by the Community College Summit held at the White House...
