Practitioners, agencies and policymakers with questions about the Fostering Connections Act are likely to find their question - and its answer -...
They may not have been able to vote for him, but many youths are already feeling optimistic about Barack Obama's presidency. Not...
Hispanics' underrepresentation in the U.S. military - given the minority group's high interest in armed forces enlistment - can be traced in...
An independent review into medical experiments performed on African-American and Latino foster children in New York found that the HIV/AIDS clinical trials...
Children's exposure to lewd television content may expand beyond the realm of just the television set. A Parents Television Council report finds...
National Center for Educational Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences Educators and parents who are looking for warning signs that a high school...
In the parlance of the field, they are called “lifers.” They are people who as children joined youth organizations and basically never...
Michael Waldman Michael Waldman comes from a long line of social workers: his grandparents, aunts, uncle, parents and sister. So it’s probably...
Sheavaun Malone When Sheavaun Malone was 11, her best friend invited her to summer vacation Bible school at the Salvation Army in...
Paco Fuentes Paco Fuentes has traveled the country and halfway around the world, only to wind up back in his old...
Carla Shelton Carla Shelton’s mother was a single mom who worked several jobs to make ends meet and pay Catholic school...
De’Janaria Austin De’Janaria Austin moved from one military youth program to another as his Air Force father moved the family from Myrtle...
Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...
Bentley: “The more voices we have singing in unison, the better it is for children.” Some of the nation’s most prominent children’s...
Pasewalk: “Her ability to make work light and fun was always appreciated,” an ex-colleague says. It was 1973, and Jill Pasewalk...
Nonprofits Tracy Velázquez Tracy Velázquez is the new executive director of the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute (JPI). Formerly the senior program...
Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...
Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...