Youth Today
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Walden University Hosts 2008 Presidential Youth Debate Online
Youth in America rarely get the opportunity to ask presidential candidates questions directly, but that’s what the Presidential Youth Debate will provide....
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Many Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students Feel “Unsafe” in School
Nearly 90 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) middle and high school students were verbally harassed at school during the...
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Bush Signs Foster Care, Adoptions Act
President Bush has signed the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, one of a cluster of youth-directed bills...
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Widget the Candidates
This “McCain Report” widget is available at www.widgetbox.com Trying to keep up with what is being said during this election campaign...
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Videotape Puts Program in Jeopardy
The chance videotaping of a boot-camp foster home staffer slamming a 16-year-old to the ground and pinning him down – because the...
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A Foundation Changes Course
Almost eight decades after its founding, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is embarking on the kind of complex, fundamental overhaul of its mission...
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Left on Doorstep, Teen Programs get Adopted
Click on chart to open PDF version. Before the hammer fell last year, a federal demonstration project to guide disadvantaged youth...
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Mighty Missouri Model Honored by Harvard; Now What?
There is no shortage of testimonials from the juvenile justice field when it comes to the confinement strategies used by the...
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Newsmakers for October 2008
Byron Garrett Nonprofits National PTA, the Chicago-based organization that uses its 54 state congresses as the liaisons between it and 26,000...
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Correction
A story in our September issue, “A Push for Investments Instead of Grants,” incorrectly identified Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas as a...
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McCain, Obama and Kids
Click on chart to open PDF version. Where do John McCain and Barack Obama stand on issues that affect youth? Advocacy groups...
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Groups Strive to Make Youth Issues Debatable
Stepping up: Youths and youth advocates rallied at a playground in Portland to raise awareness of key issues. Photo: Children First...
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Party Service
Drawing a crowd: Students at Columbia University stood outside to watch the candidates speak at the service summit. Photo: Ian Kwok/Columbia...
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Coalition Pushes Community Schools Agenda
Hundreds of organizations are coming together to promote a unified national agenda for community partnerships that link schools and youth-development organizations....
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National Youth Groups Unveil Agenda
The National Collaboration for Youth (NCY) last month released a legislative agenda that its members have committed themselves to pushing in...
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Expanded Learning Time Gains
A new study shows that expanded learning time (ELT) programs are increasing across the country, but so far these extensions of the...
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2008 Survey of Washington State Youth in Foster Care
In what is being called the most extensive single-state, direct survey of foster youth about their experiences in care, about three-quarters of...
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School Enrollment in the United States: 2006
More students were in college and high school and fewer were in nursery school, kindergarten and elementary school in the United States...
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Employment and Unemployment among Youth – Summer 2008
From April to July this year, the number of employed 16- to 24-year-old "youth" increased by 1.9 million, to 21 million, according...
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Cases of HIV Infection and AIDS in the United States and Dependent Areas, by Race/Ethnicity, 2002-2006
More than 5,300 13- to 24-year-olds in the United States contracted HIV/AIDS in 2006, according to the CDC.
