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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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2.0KHow 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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8.9KAll 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....
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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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1.5KKids 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....
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2.0KYouth 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...
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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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2.4KHouse 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...
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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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1.8KSummer 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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1.9KS.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...
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Newsmakers | July 2017
Carol Butera, MSW,CFRE - Seth Beattie - Barbara Chow - Kiran Ahuja - Andrew Lane
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1.2KSeven 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...
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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...
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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...
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2.6KPersonalized 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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2.0KPeacebuilders 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...
