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Politics of Charter Schools Makes Strange Bedfellows
The struggles of charter schools in the nation’s capital reflects what they’re up against nationwide. Washington, D.C., charter schools are pulling 10...
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Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride
Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...
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Studies Slam Excessive Minority Lock-Ups, But Solutions Escape
A flurry of new reports charges that minority youth get unequal treatment in the criminal justice system – yet costly efforts over...
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Success Depends on Building Coalitions
Most of the media attention on charter schools emphasizes individual struggles or isolated success stories. One of the most exciting possibilities gets...
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Computers Mean Business For Teens
For the teens in Plugged In Enterprises, the experience is part real-world business, part structured learning and part community service. It is...
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‘Traumatic Transition’ as Workforce Act Displaces Summer Jobs for Youth Program
Scrambling to fill the void being left by the now defunct 16-year-old Job Training Partnership Act’s Summer Youth Employment Program, alarmed youth-serving...
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Feds Boot Up Funding For Youth Technology
While private sector support of youth technology programs is a major element of overall funding, the federal government is also a major...
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Got Busted? On Drugs? In a Gang?
Getting arrested for violating the curfew here earns kids a police escort to court – a huge one, with a shiny wood...
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Indy Builds a Front Porch, Gov. Bush Likes the View
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—If Texas Gov. George W. Bush becomes president, the White House may get a new twist on Harry Truman’s custom-made front...
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Do Kids Count in Congress?
By Sue Badeau Members of Congress want us to believe that children are a very high priority. So day after day they...
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White House Wanderings
The White House is taking yet another crowd-pleasing spin or two around the crime and drug prevention track. In the Clinton administration’s...
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Girl Talk
Few question that much of the youth service field is pathetically underfinanced. So it is no surprise that those who follow the...
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Boy Talk, Too
While the girls’ groups have been busy caucusing, sewing on merit badges and powering around the Internet, the boys in the fatherhood...
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National Nonprofits
Holy Cow, yet another national board member has made the move from board member to full-time president. This time it’s the Englewood,...
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April Fool
Perhaps you were too busy on April 13th preparing to join an estimated 3 million young people for the 12th annual National...
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Iced @ COOL
Like, really not too cool. That’s the reaction to the abrupt departure of Melissa Kendrick, executive director of COOL – the Campus...
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Gun Control in the United States: A Comparative Survey of State Firearm Laws
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens
This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....
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Adolescents in Public Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid and CHIP
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
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National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
