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Healing Invisible Wounds: Why Investing in Trauma-Informed Care for Children Makes Sense
This policy brief says that not enough is being done by the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems to address the issues...
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What Is So Special About Male Adolescent Sexual Offending? A Review and Test of Explanations Through Meta-Analysis
A new study may have debunked the notion that adolescent sex offenders are usually socially inept, calling into question widely accepted treatment...
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Feds Issue Instructions on Fostering Connections Act, Chaffee Act
The Administration on Children Youth and Families released overarching program instructions last week for the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions...
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Study Shows Specialized Job Training Increases Wages, Jobs for Disadvantaged Workers
The first randomized controlled trial evaluation of sector-specific training programs for low-skilled and disadvantaged workers found that participants in three such programs...
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Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups
This report explores the progress and challenges of students in the United States by racial and ethnic identification. It shows that the...
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America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010
This brief confirms that the average eighth-grade math scores nationwide have reached an all-time high, and teen smoking is at its lowest...
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Ten Ways to Promote Educational Achievement and Attainment Beyond the Classroom
As part of a larger effort to provide students with more successful educational experiences, this report offers suggestions to out-of-school-time staffers on...
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The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing
This report has found that although drug testing of high school students has a slight positive impact on their past-month drug...
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For-Profit College Reform Leads to Increase in Short Selling
Controversy continues to swirl around for-profit colleges as the behind-the-scenes role of hedge funds on the industry is called into question, according...
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Lumina Foundation Shifts Focus to Policy Making
The Lumina Foundation for Education, one of the best-known higher-education philanthropies, is shifting its focus from program initiatives to policy development, according...
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New Reports Predict Downturn in Federal Funding for Children
Two new reports – both from the youth advocacy group First Focus – present the prospect of a troubling future for the...
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CNCS Prepares Its 5-Year Strategic Plan
The Corporation for National and Community Service is in the process of formulating its five-year strategic plan – required from it and...
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New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education
Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...
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New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education
Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...
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Washington Post Examines Gates Foundation’s Influence on Education Reform
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped plant the seed of national education standards and merit-based pay for teachers with nearly...
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New Database Shows Costs and Expenditures at 2,300 U.S. Colleges
A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...
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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
In 2008, 5.7 million children were living in extreme poverty – subsisting on half or less than what constitutes poverty in this...
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Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research
This brief summarizes a study conducted by the Urban Institute of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and...
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Guide Provides Information for Helping Haitian Refugees
A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers useful information for organizations dealing with Haitian families and children and those...
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Well-Known New Orleans Juvenile Judge Steps Down Amid Controversy
Judge David Bell, the former chief juvenile judge of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in Louisiana and a prominent participant in a...
