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A Forty-Year Update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders: Preliminary Findings
The Eisenhower Foundation From 1968 to 2006, the child poverty rate rose from 15 percent to 17 percent, four times the rate...
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The Impact of the Mortgage Crisis on Children
First Focus Two million children’s families will lose their homes to foreclosures in 2008 and 2009, estimates First Focus – an event...
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Residential Facilities: Improved Data and Enhanced Oversight Would Help Safeguard the Well-Being of Youth with Behavioral and Emotional Challenges
The number of state-reported fatalities of youth in residential facilities, by agency and facility type. U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Federal investigations...
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More Time for Teens: Understanding Teen Participation – Frequency, Intensity and Duration – In Boys & Girls Clubs
Public/Private Ventures Written halfway through a three-year evaluation of Boys & Girls Clubs, the report examines what it takes to get and...
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What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School
The James Irvine Foundation and Public/Private Ventures This report on Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year, $58 million...
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Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College
Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...
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Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...
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Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Studies show that youths disconnected from school and jobs are more likely to engage in crime, become...
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The Role of the Courts in Improving the Lives of Children and Families
California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care California has overburdened its courts and the child welfare workers who oversee the...
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Third Party Policy and Practice Review, Denver Department of Human Services
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) The recent abuse-related deaths of local children “known to the...
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Health Insurance: Most College Students Are Covered through Employer-Sponsored Plans, and Some Colleges and States Are Taking Steps to Increase Coverage
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Many college students struggle to obtain health insurance because they lose their dependent coverage under their parents’...
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Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome Have a History of Low Fitness and Physical Activity Levels
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) Physically inactive youth are between five and six times as likely as active youth to...
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Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs
Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence Third in a series of reports funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice...
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Student Speech Rights in the Digital Age
Boston College Law School Faculty Papers Partly due to the number of student free speech cases involving digital media, courts are struggling...
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Meeting the Mental Health and Developmental Needs of Adopted Children
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Noting the significantly higher risk of medical and psychological issues for children adopted from the child welfare...
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Volumetric MRI Study of Brain in Children with Intrauterine Exposure to Cocaine, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana
Children’s Hospital Boston Prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco continues to affect the brain into early adolescence, say researchers who used...
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Geography Matters; Child Well-Being in the States
Every Child Matters Education Fund The well-being of children in different states can vary greatly, finds this report, which ranks states on...
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After School Programs in the 21st Century: Their Potential and What It Takes to Achieve It
Harvard Family Research Project Research tells us that participation in after-school programs improves academics, school attendance rates, punctuality, grades and scores on...
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The Over-Scheduling Myth
Child Trends The common perception that today’s youth are suffering due to unbearably busy schedules is a myth, this brief reports. The...
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Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn’t and at What Cost?
Rand Corporation The most beneficial after-school programs cost the most, writes Rand education researcher Megan Beckett. While most of the past evaluations...
