Youth Today
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Why a B&G Club Won a Coveted Education Grant
Literacy programs and parental home visitation are both popular ways to help children, but combining them might seem odd – except that...
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Youth Credentials
Leicester, England – While a movement to help youths earn various forms of credentials is growing in the United States, a similar...
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Dropouts Turn Employees: Basic Lessons
The youth asleep on the park bench attracted Cop Lieu’s attention. Lieu, 22, a supervisor at the Work Group in Pennsauken, N.J.,...
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ACF Releases Rules for Extending Foster Care, GAP to Age 21
Rules published by the Administration for Children and Families this summer could make it easier for cash-strapped states to use new federal...
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L.A. Takes on Gangs – Again
A man leaves his neighborhood one day to visit the mother of his child. The woman’s current boyfriend finds out, and recruits...
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‘Good Enough Diploma’
The General Educational Development test – commonly known as the GED – is getting new attention from education reformers who have found...
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Newsmakers for September 2010
Foundations An-Me Chung, who handled much of the Charles Mott Foundation’s after-school portfolio for 10 years, has joined another behemoth in the...
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Millennial Depression
Unemployment among teens and young adults is the highest it has been since the government started keeping records and represents conditions of...
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Effects of Federal Legislation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
As many as 300,000 children become victims of commercial sexual exploitation every year in the United States, according to a new study...
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The Beacon Community Centers Middle School Initiative: Report on Implementation and Youth Experience in the Initiative’s Second Year
This report evaluates the Beacon Community Centers Middle School initiative in New York City that was established in fall 2007 to offer...
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007
This report reviews the almost 1.7 million juvenile delinquency cases handled in 2007 in U.S. courts, and compares them with caseload levels...
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Boy Scouts Changes its Tone on Sex Abuse
A sex abuse lawsuit that ended with a nearly $20 million verdict against the Boy Scouts in April appears to have changed...
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Foster Care Population Drops Again
New federal data indicate that child welfare reforms are drastically reducing the nation’s foster care population, which fell by 8 percent from...
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Tobacco Use Declines, But More Slowly
Teen smoking is continuing to drop but at a slower rate than before, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says...
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Project Will Award College Degrees to Ex-Students
A new project announced Thursday seeks to boost the number of college degrees awarded in the United States by finding people who...
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Abstinence Survey Stirs Debate
A nearly two-year-old, federally-funded survey of teen and parent attitudes about sex has prompted new outrage among abstinence education supporters, just as...
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Advocates Ask Justice to Investigate Texas Juvenile Facilities
A group of advocacy organizations has asked the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate abuse and deprivation...
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Legacy of Katrina: The Impact of a Flawed Recovery on Vulnerable Children of the Gulf Coast
Despite economic and infrastructure growth in the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina, one item remains unrepaired five years later: children’s mental health....
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Victories Start to Show in Obesity Fight
Amid all the talk and new initiatives aimed at combating youth obesity, there’s been a trickle of evidence that obesity is declining...
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Teach for America Grows, but How Much Does it Help?
Teach for America is growing fast, and will grow even more thanks to winning a $50 million federal grant this month. But...
