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The Fleecing of Foster Children: How We Confiscate Their Assets and Undermine Their Financial Security
The Children’s Advocacy Institute, First Star About 30,000 of the nation’s foster children age out of the system each year, most often...
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Scaling What Works
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations This study examines the term “scale” as it’s used in the field of philanthropy and social services, as...
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What Works for Latino/Hispanic Children and Adolescents: Lessons Learned from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
Child Trends Thirty-three social intervention programs were studied to conclude their effectiveness specifically on Latino/Hispanic children in a variety of categories. Overall,...
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What Works for African American Children and Adolescents: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
Child Trends This study examined findings from 53 random experimental evaluations of social intervention programs and their effects on African-American youth and...
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Learning Communities for Students in Developmental Math: Impact Studies at Queensborough and Houston Community Colleges
National Center for Postsecondary Research More students enroll in community colleges as opposed to four-year institutions each year, mostly because of the...
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Rationale for Regular Reporting on Health Disparities and Inequalities — United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Social attributes such as differences in income and race/ethnicity make a difference in how likely Americans...
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Helping All of Our Homeless
Helping All of Our Homeless: Developing a Gay and Transgender Inclusive Federal Plan to End Homelessness Center for America Progress This study...
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Racial Bias in Child Protection?
Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data Pediatrics The disproportionate number of black children who are...
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Piling It On
National Consumer Law Center Students planning to attend for-profit colleges are finding it easier to borrow money from the institution itself to...
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Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study
Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study Pediatrics A large study of youths in Singapore led researchers to conclude...
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Rationale for Regular Reporting on Health Disparities and Inequalities — United States
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Social attributes such as differences in income and race/ethnicity make a difference in how likely Americans...
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Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment, 2009
Amidst a worsening economy that many feared would heighten the demand for child welfare services in 2009, the number of substantiated abuse...
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What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness?
What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness? Corporate Voices for Working Families The vast majority of America’s business leaders believe investing...
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Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationship
Characteristics of Young Adult Sexual Relationships: Diverse, Sometimes Violent, Often Loving Child Trends Research Brief Data for this study was obtained from...
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Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform
Unlikely Allies: Unions and Districts in the Battle for School Reform Education Sector Faced with the task of turning around failing schools...
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Family Structure and Children’s Health in the United States
National Center for Health Statistics The fact that children today are more likely to grow up in a non-traditional family in...
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The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools
The Council of the Great City Schools The council, for the first time, tried to measure exactly the extent of challenges facing...
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Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Data from the Justice Department’s long-term Pathways to Desistance study do not establish a causal link between serious juvenile offending and substance...
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Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Nonheterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study
Pediatrics A study based on The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health found that homosexual adolescents were at higher risk of getting...
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How to Improve Mental Health Care for LGBT Youth: Recommendations for the Department of Health and Human Services
Center for American Progress This paper shows that despite the recently highly publicized suicides of gay teens, their deaths do not mark...
