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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...
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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...
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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...
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New UNICEF Study Shifts Focus toward Most Disadvantaged
The UN Children’s Fund released two studies on Tuesday that suggest millions more lives can be saved if aid is administered on...
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A Fairer Deal for College Students
Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He writes: “Too many of...
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Who and Where Are America’s Uninsured Children?
Who And Where Are The Children Yet To Enroll In Medicaid And The Children’s Health Insurance Program? Health Affairs As the federal...
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For-Profit Colleges and Universities: America’s Least Costly and Most Efficient System of Higher Education
For-profit colleges are the best, says this study by a center created by a for-profit college. With the practices of many for-profits...
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Effects of Federal Legislation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
As many as 300,000 children become victims of commercial sexual exploitation every year in the United States, according to a new study...
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The Beacon Community Centers Middle School Initiative: Report on Implementation and Youth Experience in the Initiative’s Second Year
This report evaluates the Beacon Community Centers Middle School initiative in New York City that was established in fall 2007 to offer...
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Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007
This report reviews the almost 1.7 million juvenile delinquency cases handled in 2007 in U.S. courts, and compares them with caseload levels...
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Legacy of Katrina: The Impact of a Flawed Recovery on Vulnerable Children of the Gulf Coast
Despite economic and infrastructure growth in the Gulf region after Hurricane Katrina, one item remains unrepaired five years later: children’s mental health....
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The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment
With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...
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Teach for America Grows, but How Much Does it Help?
Teach for America is growing fast, and will grow even more thanks to winning a $50 million federal grant this month. But...
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Smoking in Top-Grossing Movies – United States, 1991-2009
There’s less smoking in the movies but youth still see an awful lot, according to the latest issue of the CDC’s Morbidity...
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Heat Illness Among High School Athletes – United States, 2005-2009
With football practices at high schools and youth recreation leagues well underway this month, a new federal government report warns coaches, parents...
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Yes We Can: The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males
The high school graduation rate for African-American males was just 47 percent in 2007-08, far below the 78 percent rate for white...
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The Excitement and Pain of Competing for Promise Neighborhoods Money
With President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative (PNI) generating enormous excitement – 339 applications were filed in June for just 20 grants –...
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Global Employment Trends for Youth: Special Issue on the Impact of the Global Crisis on Youth
Some 81 million young people around the world were unemployed last year, accounting for 13 percent of people aged 15 to 24,...
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Big Gaps, Small Gaps
Some Colleges and Universities Do Better Than Others in Graduating Hispanic Students The Education Trust As the fastest growing minority in America,...
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Tobacco Use in 13 States
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study shows youths 18 to 24 who smoke cigarettes are more likely to use...
