The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education and Public Agenda According to a survey conducted by The National Center for...
This report focuses on a new way of determining which high schools are turning out the students best prepared to take on...
The number of youth earmarks continues its descent in the fiscal 2010 federal budget. Youth Today found 813 earmarks by poring over...
Teen pregnancy and abortion rates are on the rise, according to a new report, but it’s hard to know exactly why. The...
Abstinence education, teen pregnancy prevention, family visitation and health care for foster kids – these are just a few of the youth...
Saying nearly all of the Recovery Act money for summer youth employment programs has been spent, the U.S. Employment and Training Administration...
More than three dozen organizations – including several community colleges and youth-serving agencies – will split $150 million in “green jobs” grants...
When the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, an arts education organization, received a $10,000 personal check in the mail earlier this month...
Twelve percent – or about one in eight – of youths held in large juvenile facilities in the U.S. report being victimized...
A new $110 million appropriation for teen pregnancy prevention and the Obama administration’s elimination of funds for abstinence-only education has revived what...
Several youth-serving agencies will benefit from $100 million in green jobs training grants that the U.S. Department of Labor released Wednesday. The...
When Kauffman Scholars Inc. launched its college access program with a group of seventh-graders in 2003, administrators thought its promise of a...
The Red Jacket: Former Sen. Harris Wofford with Sen. Ted Kennedy, who often donned his City Year jacket for sailing. Photo: City...
Correction: The article below incorrectly stated that in 2005, Chicago police accidentally killed a 14-year-old in a residential treatment center with a stun...
King: “I’ve done more harm than good.” San Francisco—A round-faced man whose attire suggested modest means stood in the sun-splashed lobby outside...
Marian Wright Edelman Nonprofits What’s been going on the past two years at the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF)? More than a...
The administrators meet for the first time, minutes before the forum. Standing (left to right): Robert Sweet, Shay Bilchik and Verne Speirs;...
[See related article, OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy; watch videos from the forum at http://www.youthtodayexchange.org] John Rector1977-1979Appointed by Jimmy Carter The...
State Health Access Data Assistance Center The state of Maryland has started to use adjusted gross income and various data from...
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University The investigations of the families of 1.86 million U.S. children for...