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2.5KNY High School Students Pull Off Gun Regulation Forum for State Candidates
Jessica Moskowitz hesitated before she sat in one of the pews in the back of an Episcopal church. The 16-year-old is Jewish...
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1.6KIndicators of School Crime and Safety: 2017
This latest issue of the annual report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics presents comprehensive...
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2.2KStemming the Tide: Diverting Youth with Mental Health Conditions from the Illinois Juvenile Justice System
The Illinois Mental Health Opportunities for Youth Diversion Task Force authored this report which demonstrates the mental health issues of youth involved...
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2.6KUse SEL Principles to Create Safe Schools, Aspen Institute Urges
The Aspen Institute is urging making schools safer by using social and emotional learning principles. “Safety is about the absence of violence,”...
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6.5KFor Underdog High School Football Team in Harlem, Fight Is a Way of Life
The weight room inside Frederick Douglass Academy in East Harlem, New York is nothing more than a repurposed classroom. The ceiling is...
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5.5KSocial Media a Powerful Weapon in Combating Opioid Crisis, Reaching Teens
It used to be common behavior, but few would consider getting into a car with an open beer today. Public awareness of...
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3.5KAdvocates Express Concern, Hope about Revolutionary Changes to Foster Care System
Recently passed federal legislation is revolutionary in its approach to reorganizing the nation’s foster care system, reform advocates agree, but some are...
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2.3KStill Hungry and Homeless in College
Wisconsin HOPE Lab discusses the worrying results of a national survey of more than 20,000 college students that found the problems of...
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2.0KAndrew Delbanco is the New President of the Teagle Foundation
Andrew Delbanco has been appointed as the new president of the Teagle Foundation. He succeeds outgoing president, Judith R. Shapiro, in July...
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6.0KPowerful Stories Written by Young People Offer Healing Insights, Guide Youth Workers
Desiree Moore, 28, was taken from her home by the Administration for Children’s Services in New York City when she was 17...
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2.6KGeorgia Legislation to Help Child Sexual Abuse Survivors Sue Dies
Efforts to hold organizations accountable for child sexual abuse could be killed in Georgia on the last day of the state legislative...
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1.8KAlton Sterling Decision Shreds Last Bit of Trust in Police, Community Says
It is easy to imagine that the scene Thursday afternoon in front of the Triple S Food Mart on North Foster Drive...
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2.9KRace and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
The Equality of Opportunity Project released this report discussing the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau about the persistent and massive...
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2.5KMarch for Our Lives Is Turning Point for Lifelong Activist, Energized Teen
The soon-to-be marchers, many of them teenagers, stood in the dark, shivering in the bitter cold, bracing against brutal winds howling off...
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1.9KMeri-Margaret Deoudes has been Appointed as the National Environmental Education Foundation’s Next President and CEO
The National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF) recently appointed Meri-Margaret Deoudes as its next president and CEO. She succeeds retiring 12-year president and...
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3.1KPhotos and Videos of March for Our Lives Around the U.S.
They came by the hundreds and thousands to Atlanta; Boston; Jacksonville, Florida; and New York: from babes in arms or strollers to...
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3.2KYouth Violence Shows How Necessary After-school Is, NAA Leaders Say
When NAA President and CEO Gina Warner stepped to the podium at lunchtime Tuesday at the National Afterschool Association Convention, she had...
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1.8KNoncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System: 2018 Update
The Annie E. Casey Foundation takes a look at the most important recent policy and practice changes regarding noncitizen youth in the...
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3.0KDespite DeVos Claim, Data Show Effectiveness of After-school Programs
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Tuesday repeated the Trump administration's claim that no data shows after-school programs to be effective.
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5.5KAfter-school Professionals Find New Ideas, Resources, Messages at NAA Convention
ATLANTA — About 1,800 after-school professionals attended workshops on social and emotional learning, effective approaches to STEM, creating high-quality programs and many...
