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After-school Programs Work to Host, Show Off for Their Elected Officials

Would you invite elected officials to visit your youth program? Would you welcome the prospect or shake in your shoes at the...

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Young Bostonians Pleased With Counter-protester Turnout Against ‘Free Speech’ Rally

With her 2-year-old son perched on her shoulders, Tomiqua Williams, 30, carefully guided her 5-year-old daughter’s...

Student Loan Repayment

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) takes a comprehensive look at how student loan borrowers and their repayment progress has changed over...

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After-school Programs Have Role to Play in Reducing Bigotry, NAA Says

In the wake of hate crimes that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, adults who work with youth need to be equipped to...

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Schools, After-school Programs Join to Promote Social and Emotional Learning

When school starts this fall in Tulsa, Oklahoma, teachers and after-school staff will be working together in a new way. In five...

Unrealized Impact: The Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This report released by NewSchools Venture Fund highlights the stark lack of diversity in education leadership across the country and the detrimental...

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How a New York Police Official Targets Thoughts to Fight Crime

When Carlos Jennings got out of prison in 2014, he wanted to kill the person who helped put him there. “I wasn’t...

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All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

Liza Jessie Peterson’s “All Day” is a moving account of her career working with young men at New York’s notorious Rikers Island....

Unlocking Youth: Legal Strategies to End Solitary Confinement in Juvenile Facilities

The Juvenile Law Center recently released this new report which outlines the counterproductive nature and the great harm caused by the solitary...

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Kids Learn By Doing in Canoemobile’s Floating Classrooms

When kids first step into the big 10-person canoes at Canoemobile, some are panic-stricken. Julie Storck has seen kids cry in fear....

Dimitrius Eliza, Camden, New Jersey, sits in tree at summit on food systems, inequality in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Youth Meet in Greensboro, NC, to Address Food Systems, Inequality

About 100 high school youth from community and out-of-school organizations have gathered along with their adult allies in Greensboro, North Carolina, for...

Removals to Foster Care Called ‘Jane Crow’

In New York City, the agency that handles children’s services asked for 40 percent more removals of children from their families to...

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House Subcommittee Funds Federal After-school Program Despite Trump’s Call to Kill It

Chris Neitzey breathed a sigh of relief this week. He and other advocates of after-school and summer learning programs have been on...

2017 Home Visiting Yearbook

This new report from the National Home Visiting Resource Center brings together comprehensive data on the current state of childhood home visiting...

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Summer Learning Day Inspires Innovative Ways to Showcase Summer Learning

Young and old readers of “Charlotte’s Web” won’t soon forget the trip that Charlotte the spider and Wilbur the pig made to...

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S.O.U.L. Sisters Empowers Black Girls Most Impacted by Inequality

Last month, a group of girls at a juvenile detention center in the Bronx sat in a discussion circle with a teaching...

Newsmakers | July 2017

Carol Butera, MSW,CFRE - Seth Beattie - Barbara Chow - Kiran Ahuja - Andrew Lane

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Seven Tepees Stays With Kids 7 Years to Support School Success

Twenty-two years ago, a retired juvenile court judge in San Francisco teamed up with a Native American healer to help kids get...

Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood

This groundbreaking new study recently released by the Georgetown University Law Center uses comprehensive survey data to show how the perception of...