Center on Education Policy Nearly two-thirds of U.S. school districts report that since the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during...
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Asked to analyze the major factors behind the disproportionately high number of African-American children in foster care,...
Center for Social Policy and Research, Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois at Chicago In the decade since the...
The Commonwealth Fund More than 13 million adults ages 19 to 29 lacked health insurance coverage in 2005, according to this report....
Developmental Psychology, Vol. 43, No. 4 Three psychologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia conducted this study into the effects of co-ruminating, or...
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services For two years beginning in 2004, the task force conducted reviews of 53 published scientific...
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign This study evaluated four sets of factors thought to affect adolescents’ developmental (positive)...
Child and Early Education Research Connections Although research indicates that regular participation in high-quality after-school programs yields many positive developmental benefits for...
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) In assessing the implementation of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999 (FCIA), which doubled federal funding...
The Forum for Youth Investment (FYI) These eight principles for engaging youth as partners in community change can help organizations and communities...
Incenter Strategies/MCH Policy Research Center This report describes an interdisciplinary model of physical, behavioral and reproductive health care operating in a hospital-based...
National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice In the juvenile justice system, the prevalence of youth exposed to trauma is believed...
Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) At a time when increased attention is being paid to the fact that nearly one...
William T. Grant Foundation This very readable report, written by consultant and former journalist Joseph Ames, details how California implemented the largest...
Child Trends Few benefits can be gained from out-of-school programs without the active, consistent participation of youth. This brief provides ideas for...
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (Vol. 24, No. 1) In order to better understand children’s perspectives on out-of-home care, the researchers...
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center/Education Week Today’s high school graduates will need at least some college education in order to land...
National Poverty Center Using data from interviews with 1,700 single mothers of adolescents who went from welfare to full-time work, researchers found...
Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative/Kids Are Waiting This report presents the latest state-by-state data on the number of youth who have aged...
Communities in Schools/National Center for Dropout Prevention The evidence compiled in this study shows that dropping out of school is almost always...