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2.4KPersonalized Restorative Justice Best Way to Teach Traumatized Students, Conferees Told
A white board with a giant illustration of the human brain sat in the middle of the room, a constant reminder, participants...
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1.9KPeacebuilders Camp Focuses on Human Rights, Relationships
On a hot July day last year, a group of middle-school kids at a summer camp in southwest Georgia grappled with some...
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1.1KJuvenile Justice Educators Debate New State Requirements Under Every Student Succeeds Act
The federal government’s attempts to bring consistency and standards to public education across the country have often clashed with the reality facing...
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2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book
The latest edition of the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book from the Annie E. Casey Foundation provides a comprehensive snapshot of the...
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Growing Up LGBT in America
The Human Rights Campaign conducted exhaustive surveys of the largest known sample of LGBT youth ever (over 10,000) from across the country...
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1.1KFailure of Public, Political Will Threatens Progress on Child Welfare, Casey warns
Amid the charts and tables of this year’s Kids Count Data Book is a stark warning. The gains in children’s health, education...
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1.2KKids Compete, Learn in Juvenile Justice Jeopardy Game
Spending a Saturday morning in a classroom is not something most kids want to do. So why did 110 kids between 9...
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3.1K21st Century After-school Programs Connect Kids to Careers, Advocates Tell Congress
Colby Holmes, a recent high school graduate from the small town of New Hope, Alabama, found himself on Capitol Hill this week....
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2.6KP-TECH: Can a High School-College-Industry Partnership Provide a Model Path to Achievement?
When Katrice Wiley, a longtime Baltimore City Public Schools administrator, served as principal at a 6-12 school on the city’s east side,...
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2.3KLA County Puts Thousands of Kids on ‘Voluntary’ Probation for Merely Struggling With School
Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most of her life. As is true for many foster children bounced through multiple placements,...
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Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016
The latest edition of this annual report by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics examines the...
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2.1KIn Washington, D.C., Who’s Minding the Kids?
On June 7, after-school organizations across the county will send representatives to Capitol Hill to talk about the value of their program...
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5.5KHow LA County Began to Face Its Big Problem With Youth Being Sex-Trafficked
Michelle Guymon is a hero in the world of child sex trafficking prevention. Seven years ago, she had no idea Los Angeles...
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4.8KMore Protections for Juvenile Offenders Are Before California Legislators
Proposed legislation would move juvenile justice in California closer to rehabilitating youth rather than punishing them, juvenile advocates say.
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Implementing Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Reforms
The Urban Institute summarizes and analyzes the effectiveness of the implementation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Juvenile Justice...
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1.9KGault at 50: Conference to Offer Tips for ‘Front-line’ Juvenile Lawyers
You could call it the obscene phone call heard ‘round the world. The May 1967 Supreme Court ruling that threw out Gerald...
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1.5KCommunity Organizations Play a Big Role in Raising Graduation Rates, Advocates Say
Nonprofit leaders working to raise the nation’s high school graduation rate say it’s an economic imperative, and they say out-of-school-time (OST) partners...
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792Rally Held to Support Jessica Colotl’s Immigration Fight to Keep Dreamer Status
Advocacy groups and protesters rallied this weekend downtown in support of Jessica Colotl, whose Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status was recently...
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1.8KBeyond the Cities: Closing the Gap in Rural Areas
Earlier this year, students in the High Desert Leapin’ Lizards after-school program in Kern County, California, got a glimpse of life on...
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2014
This new report form the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ) takes a comprehensive and statistical look at delinquency and petitioned status...
