Youth Today
Opinion
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Top Headlines 4/21
Child Welfare North Dakota needs a child welfare ombudsman, among other things, writes activist John Ford in an op-ed that appeared in...
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Weekly Notes: Recidivism apples vs. Recidivism oranges; juvenile justice and the 2011 budget deal; guide to for-profit colleges; and more
***The staff at Youth Today has been hard at work finishing up our April print issue, which by the way include our...
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Top Headlines 4/14
Child Welfare Stacey Patton reports for Black Voice News on the report released a few months ago that found that racial bias...
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Top Headlines 4/1
Child Welfare Journal-Inquirer Managing Editor Chris Powell mourns what he calls just another month in Connecticut’s decline, citing a number of violent...
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Top Headlines 3/30
Child Welfare Texas is the latest state to face a class-action lawsuit from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights, reports Terri Langford of the...
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Top Headlines 3/29
Child Welfare The New Jersey Star-Ledger said trying two New York City caseworkers for criminally negligent homicide could have a “chilling effect”...
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Race and Beyond: Majority Minority Toddlers
Cold, hard facts are unassailable, but often are disregarded. Such ignorance comes with looming peril. Here’s a pair of textbook examples. Fact...
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Top Headlines 3/7
Child Welfare Ana Valdes of the Palm Beach Post reports that three events to be held today could all shed light on...
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Weekly Notes: Push-back on the Obama JJ plan; Major Luzerne update; Onion paying attention to juvenile justice issues; and more
***The President released his 2012 budget on Monday, and it included a proposal to drastically change the structure of federal juvenile justice...
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Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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Top Headlines 1/7
Child Welfare George State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver wrote a long op-ed in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the state’s use of psychotropic...
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Top Headlines 12/28
Child Welfare Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, in an op-ed that appeared in The Oklahoman last week,...
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Top Headlines 12/17
Child Welfare Stories from three states where settlements from class-action lawsuits from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights are still being monitored: The Tennessean...
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The $5 Billion Blunder
Suppose that, five years ago, you had a large sum of money to invest and two financial advisors competing for your business....
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Top Headlines 11/9
Child Welfare Washington, D.C. has settled for $10 million with a five-year-old boy who the city placed with an abusive foster mother,...
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Top Headlines 11/4
Child Welfare Los Angeles County will review old data and look to establish a single data collection entity to track the deaths...
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Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
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Reconnecting Youths Without Diplomas
An avalanche of important attention has been paid to America’s dropout crisis – the reasons for it and how to reverse it....
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No Reform Without Education
The recent defeat at the polls of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty demonstrates an important fact that philanthropists and school reformers have...
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‘Hope Springs Eternal,’ according to Gallup Poll
It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...
