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What Free Won’t Fix: Too Many Public Colleges are Dropout Factories
The centrist think tank, Third Way, released this report which demonstrates how high the dropout rates are in public higher education. The...
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Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBTQ Youth
This new report from the Center for American Progress' Movement Advancement Project shows how LGBTQ youth are vastly over-represented in both the...
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High Hopes and Harsh Realities: The Real Challenges to Building a Diverse Teacher Workforce
The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution recently wrote and released this report detailing the current and stark lack...
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Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth
This new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses the first nationally representative study of U.S. lesbian, gay and...
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No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State
The National Conference of State Legislatures prepared this report to highlight the troubling state of the current education system in the U.S....
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A Glimpse Inside the Coffers: Endowment Spending at Wealthy Colleges and Universities
This report from the Education Trust details the extreme wealth stratification occurring among institutions of higher education across the nation. It finds...
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World Youth Report on Youth Civic Engagement
The United Nations prepared this report to give a comprehensive and current outlook on youth's participation in economic and political life around...
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Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) examines the ways in which school systems disproportionately discipline LGBTQ youth while also failing...
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Trends in State and Local Expenditures on Corrections and Education
The U.S. Department of Education produced this report as part of an effort to call on states to invest in education instead...
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The Early Childhood Workforce Index
The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley recently published this report establishing and tracking...
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The State of the World’s Children 2016: A Fair Chance for Every Child
UNICEF's latest State of the World's Children report makes the case for aggressive action to help the world's hundreds of millions of...
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Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities
This new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics uses 2012 survey data to show that the occurrence of sexual abuse in...
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The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation authored this report which which uses comprehensive education data to highlight key problems in the way...
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The 2013-14 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) First Look Report
The Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) report and data for the 2013-2014 school year has been released by the U.S. Dept. of...
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The Condition of Education 2016
The National Center for Education Statistics recently published the most recent edition of its Condition of Education report which uses the latest...
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K-12 Education: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination
This new report commission by the U.S. Government Accountability Office discusses data concerning the economic and racial make-up of K-12 students in...
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Reduced Disparities in Birth Rates Among Teens Aged 15–19 Years
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds a significant and widespread national drop in teen pregnancy rates across all ethnic groups...
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A Shared Sentence – The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
This new report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation details the effects over-incarceration of adults has on on our nation's youth and...
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Time to Act: Making Data Work for Students
Data Quality Campaign highlights the current state of the use of data in education and makes recommendations to states to enact more...
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Fulfilling the Promise, Serving the Need: Advancing College Opportunity for Low-Income Students
This new report from the U.S. Dept. of Education discusses the current state of the success of low-income students in higher education,...
