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Addressing the Unmet Educational Needs of Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems
Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown Public Policy Institute Youths who go through both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems...
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Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters
Annie E. Casey Foundation Poor reading skills at an early age are a warning sign of dropping out in high school,...
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Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California’s Long Term English Learners
Californians Together Non-English speaking students who are always taught in English are likely to face long-term academic struggles, according to this...
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Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, National Survey of Family Growth 2006-2008
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This new report makes clear that not all teens are motivated to avoid pregnancy,...
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U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study: Psychological Adjustment of 17-year-old Adolescents
Pediatrics Children raised since birth in lesbian-mother families display healthy psychological adjustment and outperform their heterosexual- and male homosexual-raised counterparts in...
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Youth Tobacco Sales
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) The national rates of tobacco sales to minors showed a slight increase...
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2009
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nearly three-quarters of American students – 72.5 percent – have drunk alcohol by the...
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What Works for Home Visiting Programs: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
Following rigorous evaluations of 66 home visitation programs, researchers found that less than half positively affected their communities, this fact sheet says....
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Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?
A pressing question regarding the effectiveness of certain adoptive parents has increasingly found its way into courtrooms, resulting in legal proceedings and...
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Solutions Storytelling: Messaging to Mobilize Support for Children’s Issues
Many youth-serving organizations need to focus more on getting out positive stories about their work, this report says. The difficulty of mobilizing...
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An Employment Training and Job Placement Program for Foster Youth Making the Transition to Adulthood in Cook County, Illinois
Research indicates that youths who exit foster care often become unemployed or hold unstable, low-paying jobs. This report analyzes the research, and...
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2010 Kids County Data Book
Some improvements in child well-being during the 1990s stalled in the first years of the 2000s, just before the recession began, according...
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Drowning in Debt: The Student Loan Crisis
The cost of attending public universities has doubled over the past two decades, but family income and financial aid rates have not...
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Healing Invisible Wounds: Why Investing in Trauma-Informed Care for Children Makes Sense
This policy brief says that not enough is being done by the juvenile justice and criminal justice systems to address the issues...
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What Is So Special About Male Adolescent Sexual Offending? A Review and Test of Explanations Through Meta-Analysis
A new study may have debunked the notion that adolescent sex offenders are usually socially inept, calling into question widely accepted treatment...
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Status and Trends in the Education of Racial and Ethnic Groups
This report explores the progress and challenges of students in the United States by racial and ethnic identification. It shows that the...
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America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010
This brief confirms that the average eighth-grade math scores nationwide have reached an all-time high, and teen smoking is at its lowest...
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Ten Ways to Promote Educational Achievement and Attainment Beyond the Classroom
As part of a larger effort to provide students with more successful educational experiences, this report offers suggestions to out-of-school-time staffers on...
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The Effectiveness of Mandatory-Random Student Drug Testing
This report has found that although drug testing of high school students has a slight positive impact on their past-month drug...
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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
In 2008, 5.7 million children were living in extreme poverty – subsisting on half or less than what constitutes poverty in this...
