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How Chicago Sends More Kids to College

Tutoring is key. Photo: AVID Before President Barack Obama plucked him from Chicago to serve as the nation’s new education secretary, Arne...

New Coalition Pushes Children’s Agenda

Bentley: “The more voices we have singing in unison, the better it is for children.” Some of the nation’s most prominent children’s...

An Urge to Care Lit Her Fire

Pasewalk: “Her ability to make work light and fun was always appreciated,” an ex-colleague says. It was 1973, and Jill Pasewalk...

Newsmakers for March 2009

Nonprofits Tracy Velázquez Tracy Velázquez is the new executive director of the Washington-based Justice Policy Institute (JPI). Formerly the senior program...

Project Offers Help for Getting Financial Aid

Oreopoulos: Report urges partnership between federal departments to ease aid applications. Testifying at his January confirmation hearing to become U.S. education secretary,...

The Stimulus and Youth

Below is a look at how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will affect funding for youth services in federal...

Youth Services in States of Pain

With the national economic crisis deepening, youth programs and youth service advocates are scrambling to save funding as they cut their current...

The Teens with Michelle Obama at President’s Speech

Three Washington, D.C., high school students who asked first lady Michelle Obama questions during her recent visit to their after-school program were...

ACLU: Schools Ignore Landmark Supreme Court Ruling, Still Censor Students’ Speech

A sceen shot from the ACLU video. Credit: ACLU. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District, decided 40 years ago this month,...

Most Stimulus Jobs Require College Experience

A little more than half of the 3.7 million jobs expected to be created by the new economic stimulus package will require...

Online Sports Registration Vendor Strikes Out

Youth sports and after-school groups from Alaska to New Jersey that hired a Washington company to register program participants online are...

1.5 Million Homeschooled Students in the United States in 2007

Trends in the Diagnosis of Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents: 1999-2007

Academy of Pediatrics Childhood obesity has emerged in recent years as a serious problem in America, receiving widespread media coverage. According to...

Learning Science in Informal Environments: People, Places and Pursuits

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Health and Human Services (Updated July 17)

July 17 David Hansell, who was the commissioner of the State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance for New York, will be...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Employment and Training Administation (Updated June 30)

UPDATE, June 30: Jane Oates has been confirmed by the Senate. UPDATE, Apr. 10: President Obama announced his intent to nominate Jane...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Education (Updated July 17)

July 17 Obama’s choice for undersecretary of education, Martha Kanter, has been confirmed. Since 2003, Kanter had been chancellor of Foothill-De Anza...

OBAMA JOB WATCH: Department of Justice (Updated May 18)

Office of Justice Programs The “Yes We Can” attitude at President Obama’s Justice Department must have resonated with Laurie Robinson. The Clinton-era...