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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...
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Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research
This brief summarizes a study conducted by the Urban Institute of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and...
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Report: Declining College Degree Prospects For Low-Income Youths
In the coming years, low- and moderate-income youth will find it increasingly difficult to afford the cost of a college degree because...
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AfterZones: Creating a Citywide System to Support and Sustain High-Quality After-School Programs
Public/Private Ventures & The Wallace Foundation P/PV analyzes the success and impediments in implementing one of the country’s more well-known citywide...
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2010 Child and Youth Well-Being Index
Foundation for Child Development, Duke University Children under 18 comprise the largest group of Americans in poverty, and overall conditions –...
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Childhood Poverty Persistence: Facts and Consequences
Low-Income Working Families Project, Urban Institute Children born into poverty whose families continue to be poor for several years have worse...
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On the Streets: The Federal Response to Gay and Transgender Homeless Youth
Center for American Progress Recognizing the disproportionate number of homeless youth who are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, the Center for...
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Transforming the High School Experience: How New York City’s New Small Schools Are Boosting Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
MDRC This report confirms that New York City’s small schools, introduced in 2002 after several underperforming public high schools were shut down,...
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Is It Live or Is It Internet? Experimental Estimates of the Effects of Online Instruction on Student Learning
National Bureau of Economic Research Results of a recent unprecedented experiment found that Hispanic students, male students and lower-achieving students benefit...
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Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services A recent study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics confirmed that not...
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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-raised counterparts in some areas, according...
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Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance – United States, 2009
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Nearly three-quarters of American students – 72.5 percent – have drunk alcohol by the end...
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The Academy: A Program for Older Youth Transitioning Out of Foster Care
Vera Institute of Justice Youths in the foster care system who reach adulthood without being reunited with their birth families or...
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Fixing A Broken System: Transforming Maine’s Child Welfare System
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Maine’s child welfare system, long hailed as one of the worst in the country, has made...
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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 often...
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Helping High School Dropouts Improve their Prospects
Dan Bloom, Ron Haskins – The Future of Children Between 3.5 million and 6 million Americans 16 to 24 years old...
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Public School Graduates and Dropouts From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2007-2008
National Center for Education Statistics A recent report from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that the Averaged Freshman Graduation...
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Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A meta-analysis
University of Michigan Today’s college students are less empathetic than those of the 1980s and 1990s, according to a new study survey...
