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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...
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The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment
With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...
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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...
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Smoking in Top-Grossing Movies – United States, 1991-2009
There’s less smoking in the movies but youth still see an awful lot, according to the latest issue of the CDC’s Morbidity...
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Heat Illness Among High School Athletes – United States, 2005-2009
With football practices at high schools and youth recreation leagues well underway this month, a new federal government report warns coaches, parents...
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New Rules Expand AmeriCorps
More youths can win education awards for AmeriCorps service, and they can get awards handed down by their grandparents, under new rules...
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Source of Funding Grows
Evidence of a post-recession turnaround in contributions to nonprofits continues to slowly emerge, with the latest good news coming from a source...
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Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
The high school graduation rate for African-American males was just 47 percent in 2007-08, far below the 78 percent rate for white...
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The Excitement and Pain of Competing for Promise Neighborhoods Money
With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...
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Global Employment Trends for Youth: Special Issue on the Impact of the Global Crisis on Youth
Some 81 million young people around the world were unemployed last year, accounting for 13 percent of people aged 15 to 24,...
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Repayment Data Show Effect on Proprietary Schools
College loan repayment data released late Friday by the U.S. Department of Education show that some of the largest proprietary colleges face...
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Education Department to Increase Scrutiny of Proprietary Colleges
The U.S. Department of Education will hire 60 more investigators and increase the number of investigations by 50 percent, partly in response...
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The Legacy of a Slain Los Angeles Anti-Gang Worker
Ronald “Looney” Barron, a Los Angeles gang intervention worker killed in February when he interrupted a youth “tagging” a restaurant wall, is...
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Big Gaps, Small Gaps
Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students The Education Trust As the fastest growing minority in America,...
