Youth Today
Research
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Weekly Notes: OJJDP to host national JJ conference; briefing on the intersect between research and pending bills; and more
Happy Halloween to all! Hope everyone gets in the spirit. Yours truly will be haunting around town in this get-up. ***As everyone...
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City-wide Coordination of After-School Programs Helps Kids
Hours of OpportunityThe RAND Corporation Coordination among institutions that provide after-school activities to youths might be the key to better and more...
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Social Development Programs Don’t Result in Better Behavior
Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children National Center for Education...
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Study: CPS Investigations Didn’t Improve Risks for Children
Investigations by Child Protective Services in cases of suspected maltreatment did not result in any improvement in the at-risk factors for the...
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Making Sense of Mixed Findings About Mentoring
Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring: Making Sense of Mixed Findings Society for Research in Child Development This report,...
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Who and Where Are America’s Uninsured Children?
Who And Where Are The Children Yet To Enroll In Medicaid And The Children’s Health Insurance Program? Health Affairs As the federal...
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The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment
With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...
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Committee to Begin Work on JJDPA Effectiveness
A committee tasked with assessing the impact of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act will hold its first public meeting starting...
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What Works for Home Visiting Programs: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
Following rigorous evaluations of 66 home visitation programs, researchers found that less than half positively affected their communities, this fact sheet says....
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Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?
A pressing question regarding the effectiveness of certain adoptive parents has increasingly found its way into courtrooms, resulting in legal proceedings and...
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2010 Kids County Data Book
Some improvements in child well-being during the 1990s stalled in the first years of the 2000s, just before the recession began, according...
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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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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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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...
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Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412056_WIC_eligible.pdf Information on WIC income-eligible children by congressional district and state can be found on this site. Each page contains links to...
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Out of the Inbox and Into the Streets
Column time: I reached for the “recent research” inbox and pulled out five studies – three national surveys, two major evaluations...
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Weekly Notes: Survey of transferred youth in the works; a case for PYD; and more
Funding ***The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) surprised many in the field this week by soliciting a new proposal. The agency will...
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Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next. Confident. Connected. Open to Change.
Pew Research Center This new report reflects the Pew Research Center’s effort to capture the nature of the nation’s newest generation:...
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CASA, Join Together Split
Note: This story has been updated since its original posting. Last year’s much-heralded merger of the National Center on Addiction and Substance...
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Study Finds Dropouts More Likely to be Incarcerated or Unemployed
A new report chronicling the whereabouts of past high school dropouts shows that all dropouts, and particularly African-Americans, are far more likely...
