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Weekly Notes: Remembering Allen Breed; Louisiana Juvenile Justice and antipsychotics; where private facility closures are happening; and more

***Justice justice has lost another luminary. Allen Breed, former head of the California Youth Authority and head of the National Institute of...

System Overload: The Costs of Under-Resourcing Public Defense

Justice Policy Institute Public defense systems across the United States are overburdened, according to this new report from the Justice Policy Institute. ...

A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students

Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...

A Statistical Portrait of American Postsecondary Students

Students attending for-profit colleges are more likely to be poor, poorly prepared for college, most dependent on financial aid, most likely to...

The Multi-Site Adult Drug Court Evaluation

Urban Institute This new evaluation by researchers from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center (UI-JPC), RTI International (RTI) and the Center for...

Achievement Trends of Schools and Students in Arizona’s Title I School Improvement Program

Institute of Education Sciences (IES) This report describes how Arizona public schools found to need improvement under Title I of No Child...

GAO Says U.S. Child Maltreatment Deaths Are Undercounted

Officially, the number of children who died of maltreatment in the United States in 2009 was 1,770. That’s the count from the...

National Guard Youth Academies: One Promising Option for Disconnected Youth

A new study suggests that a program run by the National Guard can help dropouts who are ready to reconnect and move...

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2011

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics The largest annual collection of indicators on the health, behavior and circumstances of American...

Transforming Education Across the Pre-K to Grade Three Years

National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) In the fall of 2010, the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) convened a...

How Young Americans Who Don’t Finish College See Their Chances for Success

Public Agenda Report for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Although when in high school the vast majority of young Americans say...

An Evaluation of the After School Matters Program

Northwestern University Although many policy makers and those in academia concur that after-school programs are important for students, participation in these programs...

Youth Cybercrime Influenced by Peers

Having friends who engage in cybercrimes is one of the greatest determinants in whether juveniles commit cybercrimes, according to a new study...

Education Department to Study School Bullying Policies

The Department of Education’s Policy and Program Studies Service (PPSS) is conducting case studies in 24 school sites studying the effectiveness and...

Details of 2009 Child Maltreatment Data Released

New information released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides more details about the number of allegations of maltreatment...

Non-income Effects of Welfare Receipt on Early Childhood Cognitive Scores

Children and Youth Services Review New research conducted at the University of Missouri and Central Michigan University looks at the effect that...

Promoting Full-Time Attendance among Adults in Community College

MDRC This report by MDRC evaluates a New York City program that is targeted at low-income adults ages 22 to 35 who...

For-Profit College Enrollment Grew 50-Fold from 1980 to 2009

The National Center for Education Statistics massive annual report, The Condition of Education, released today focuses on the rise of for-profit postsecondary...