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New Federal Budget Gives and Takes

  Congress finally finished fiscal 2008 appropriations the day after Christmas, again packing the budget with pet-project presents. But many in the...

State Children’s Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth

The Forum for Youth Investment State children’s cabinets are typically made up of the heads of government agencies serving a state’s youngest...

Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs

Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Irvine This two-year study of elementary and middle school...

Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004–05

National Center for Education Statistics The high school dropout rate was 3.9 percent for the 2004-2005 school year – similar to the...

Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

U.S. Census Bureau Thirty-three percent of 26- to 29-year-old women have a bachelor’s degree – an increase of 6 percentage points since...

Moving Backward

Georgetown University Health Policy Institution, Center for Children and Families A federal rule issued in August to limit the expansion of state...

School or the Streets: Crime and California’s Dropout Crisis

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...

Information Searches that Solve Problems

Pew Internet & American Life Project, et al Scattered throughout this comprehensive report on where the public gets its information are statistics...

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007

National Center for Education Statistics The vast majority of the 54.8 million students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2005-2006...

Family Values at Work

MultiState Working Families Consortium This report argues for a change in government standards to better promote a family-friendly work environment, particularly in...

Predictors of Sexual Risk Behaviors among Newly Homeless Youth

UCLA AIDS Institute Newly homeless youth are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings –...

The Effect of Sexual Abstinence on Educational Attainment

University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Teaching abstinence in schools has sometimes been justified on the grounds that abstaining...

Collecting Data from Children Ages 9-13

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, The Preteen Alliance Researchers who perused literature and studies about the best methods for obtaining information...

New Grants to Stabilize Nonprofits

  The plan doesn’t have a catchy name, but the New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) hopes that a new “Growth...

Newsmakers for February 2008

Government Emily DeRocco left her post at the U.S. Department of Labor in January. DeRocco was the assistant secretary in charge of...

Safety in Numbers

Street Outreach Goes Suburban

Minneapolis—When outreach worker Amanda Danielson sets out to connect with homeless and runaway youth, she does not walk into the supply room...

A Volunteer’s Impact on Policy

San Francisco—You could look at Cora Tomalinas, a delicately aging woman strolling to the stage in a winged white dress to accept...

Wanted: More Black Leaders

A critical shortfall in African-American leadership at nonprofits compelled more than 100 people to meet in October at a first-ever conclave to...

Racial Disparity in Foster Care Admissions

Chapin Hall Center for Children Approximately 37 percent of children in foster care are African-American, despite the fact that African-American children make...