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Rethinking Educational Neglect for Teenagers: New Strategies for New York State

Rethinking Educational Neglect for Teenagers: New Strategies for New York State Vera Institute of Justice Cases of educational neglect, defined in...

Study Questions Child Welfare Systems’ Drug Policies

More than two-thirds of state child welfare systems employ health professionals that handle the use of psychotropic drugs, but far fewer have...

School Suspensions Skyrocket, Racial Gap Widens

Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in CrisisSouthern Poverty Law Center Middle schools are suspending more students than ever, and black students are...

Gay Adoption Ban Overturned in Florida

Florida’s ban on adoptions by gay people is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday, clearing the way for homosexuals to adopt...

Promise Neighborhood Winners Revealed

The Obama administration on Tuesday named 21 winners in one if its most coveted youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative. More...

America’s Promise Names Best Places for Young People

100 Best Communities for Young People America’s Promise There are 30 new names among America’s Promise Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for...

Closing a Community Helped the Kids

CHA Transformation: Children and Youth Urban Institute Closing down a troubled public housing community appears to have helped the children. The closing...

Chief of Juvenile Judges’ Group Steps Down

By Patrick Boyle and John Kelly Those who have worked with Mary Mentaberry, executive director of the National Council of Juvenile and...

More Financial Aid Goes to Help Students

Tuition Discounting: Institutional Aid Patterns at Public and Private Colleges and Universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09College Board Colleges are spending slightly more of...

Justice Names Major Mentoring Grant Winners

Some of the biggest organizations in youth work were winners of the Justice Department’s National Mentoring grants announced Wednesday. They are: *...

More Children Being Raised by Grandparents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents Pew Research Center The number of children living with their...

School District Wellness Policies: Evaluating Progress and Potential for Improving Children’s Health Three Years After the Federal Mandate

Recognizing that the structure of a school environment, coupled with widespread national participation in school-based nutrition programs, could be used to promote...

Secrecy About Abuse Deaths Stirs a Storm

The department that investigates child abuse for Los Angeles County is under attack for allegedly hiding information about children who died under...

Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

This report examines the continuing disparity in at-home computer access across the socioeconomic spectrum – despite completion of a program to bridge...

Abstinence Program in China a Milestone for U.S. Evangelicals

Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian nonprofit, is seeing its abstinence-only education programs take off in China after years of working...

New UNICEF Study Shifts Focus toward Most Disadvantaged

The UN Children’s Fund released two studies on Tuesday that suggest millions more lives can be saved if aid is administered on...

A Fairer Deal for College Students

Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He writes: “Too many of...

Who and Where Are America’s Uninsured Children?

Who And Where Are The Children Yet To Enroll In Medicaid And The Children’s Health Insurance Program? Health Affairs As the federal...

How Does a 21-year-old Join a Youth Football Team?

While youth sports programs have significantly boosted their screening systems in recent years to keep out would-be coaches who have criminal backgrounds,...