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When It’s Your Own Child: Some Surprising Views from Parents about Special Ed
This report highlights the responses of a national random sampling of parents with special-needs children and is timely in light of the...
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How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
This report uses data collected in studies of parents involved in 16 welfare and employment programs to demonstrate some shortcomings of the...
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Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control
Examinations of tobacco documents show that the aim of youth initiatives by tobacco companies is self-serving and potentially detrimental to smoking prevention...
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The Young, the Restless and the Jobless
People under the age of 24 account for 53 percent of the nearly 2 million jobs lost since the recession started in...
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Innocenti Report Card
Here is more documentation, broken down by various categories, showing that the U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy and birth rates of...
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Title IX and Equal Opportunity in Vocational and Technical Education: A Promise Still Owed to the Nation’s Young Women
The center charges education administrators with failing to integrate classes in subjects that have been stereotyped as male or female.
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Measuring and Explaining Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Cuyahoga County
Anyone dealing with disproportionate minority confinement might learn something from this study of how to lower the number of black youth committed...
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Digest of Education Statistics: Elementary and Secondary Education
The online digest notes a 6 percent increase in elementary and secondary enrollment from 1994 to 1999, while enrollment in nursery and...
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The Uhlich Report Card
Teens polled in Uhlich’s fourth annual report card on adults gave grown-ups their best reviews yet.
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Institutions vs. Foster Homes
The difference in immediate outcomes between youth in home care and youth in institutional care is small.
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National Conversation on Youth Development
The council’s extensive information-gathering process polled 1,200 youth and adults from more than 400 organizations about what they deem to be the...
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Getting Out the Youth Vote in Local Elections: Results from Randomized Field Experiments
The survey examines the impact of get-out-the-vote campaigns on the voting patterns of people under 25.
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Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform
This report provides evidence that service learning programs, which combine community service with academic study, should be included in education reform and...
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11th Annual National Compensation Study
The number of women in chief executive officer positions at nonprofits is rising.
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Systems of Care Provide Hope and Opportunity for Children With Mental Health Problems and their Families
Community-based mental health services, or ‘systems of care,’ improve the emotional state, social behavior and school performance of children with mental health...
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How Children Use Media Technology
Casting aside video games, televisions and radios, the top choice of technology for youth 8-17 is the Internet, according to this report...
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The Rise and Fall of American Youth Violence: 1980-2000
The report, co-written by Urban’s Justice Policy Institute Director Jeffrey Butts, provides charts chronicling the sharp increase in violent juvenile crime between...
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Growing Up in Poverty: The Effects of Welfare Reform on Children
Based on data from three states on mothers with young children, this report says that any economic gains made by single mothers...
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Children from ‘Risky Families’ Suffer Serious Long-term Health Consequences
Households marked by conflict, anger, neglect and emotional detachment are more likely to produce children who suffer from life-long health problems.
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Lost in the Shuffle: Foster Care and Public Education
Foster children face multiple disadvantages in securing a good education, including changing schools frequently, having to attend school outside of the districts...
