Youth Today
News
-
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...
-
1.7KSummer 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...
-
1.8KS.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
-
1.1KSeven 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...
-
Rethinking Credential Requirements in Early Education
New America takes a look at the current state of education and skills requirements for early childhood educators. Currently many view these...
-
2.5KPersonalized 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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
1.2KFailure 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...
-
1.3KKids 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...
-
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....
-
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,...
-
2.4KLA 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,...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
