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School District Wellness Policies

School District Wellness Policies: Evaluating Progress and Potential for Improving Children’s Health Three Years After the Federal Mandate Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...

Reading Programs Show Little Lasting Effect

The Enhanced Reading Opportunities Final Report: The Impact of Supplemental Literacy Courses for Struggling Ninth-Grade Readers MDRC and American Institutes for Research...

Pillars of Effective Dropout Prevention Recovery

Six Pillars of Effective Dropout Prevention Recovery Reinventing Alternative Education Jobs for the Future Most states are moving too slowly toward implementation...

Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement Urban Institute This report examines the continuing disparity in at-home computer access...

Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts

Levers for Change: Pathways for State-to-District Assistance in Underperforming School Districts Center for American Progress In order to achieve better results in...

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

National Survey on Drug Use and Health U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The newest annual National Survey on Drug...

Child Poverty Rises

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 U.S. Census Bureau The child poverty rate rose last year to...

Building Capacity for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Metropolitan Atlanta Youth Opportunities Initiatives (MAYOI): Building Capacity for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Providing...

Education Gap Widens Wage Gap

Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society College Board Advocacy and Policy Center A new report from the...

Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools

What Characteristics of Bullying, Bullying Victims, and Schools Are Associated with Increased Reporting of Bullying to School Officials? National Center for Education...

Rethinking Educational Neglect for Teenagers: New Strategies for New York State

Rethinking Educational Neglect for Teenagers: New Strategies for New York State Vera Institute of Justice Cases of educational neglect, defined in...

School Suspensions Skyrocket, Racial Gap Widens

Suspended Education: Urban Middle Schools in CrisisSouthern Poverty Law Center Middle schools are suspending more students than ever, and black students are...

America’s Promise Names Best Places for Young People

100 Best Communities for Young People America’s Promise There are 30 new names among America’s Promise Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for...

Closing a Community Helped the Kids

CHA Transformation: Children and Youth Urban Institute Closing down a troubled public housing community appears to have helped the children. The closing...

More Financial Aid Goes to Help Students

Tuition Discounting: Institutional Aid Patterns at Public and Private Colleges and Universities, 2000-01 to 2008-09College Board Colleges are spending slightly more of...

More Children Being Raised by Grandparents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents Pew Research Center The number of children living with their...

School District Wellness Policies: Evaluating Progress and Potential for Improving Children’s Health Three Years After the Federal Mandate

Recognizing that the structure of a school environment, coupled with widespread national participation in school-based nutrition programs, could be used to promote...

Scaling the Digital Divide: Home Computer Technology and Student Achievement

This report examines the continuing disparity in at-home computer access across the socioeconomic spectrum – despite completion of a program to bridge...

Abstinence Program in China a Milestone for U.S. Evangelicals

Focus on the Family, the conservative Christian nonprofit, is seeing its abstinence-only education programs take off in China after years of working...