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Weekly Notes: Making the budget crunch work for reform; NY settles with DOJ; Illinois juvenile boss resigns; and more

News ***Nice resource here from the National Juvenile Justice Network on using the state budget crunch to one’s advantage as an advocate...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Governors Group Launches College Completion Initiative

America’s governors – armed with statistics about poor college completion rates and a report outlining a methodology for improving the numbers –...

News

For-Profit College Reform Leads to Increase in Short Selling

Controversy continues to swirl around for-profit colleges as the behind-the-scenes role of hedge funds on the industry is called into question, according...

News

Lumina Foundation Shifts Focus to Policy Making

The Lumina Foundation for Education, one of the best-known higher-education philanthropies, is shifting its focus from program initiatives to policy development, according...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Reports Predict Downturn in Federal Funding for Children

Two new reports – both from the youth advocacy group First Focus – present the prospect of a troubling future for the...

News

CNCS Prepares Its 5-Year Strategic Plan

The Corporation for National and Community Service is in the process of formulating its five-year strategic plan – required from it and...

News

New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education

Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...

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New Approach to the Need for Remedial Education

Educators and policymakers are beginning to focus on the question of why so many youths entering college need remedial courses in reading,...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Washington Post Examines Gates Foundation’s Influence on Education Reform

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has helped plant the seed of national education standards and merit-based pay for teachers with nearly...

New Database Shows Costs and Expenditures at 2,300 U.S. Colleges

A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...

Weekly Notes: Justice Wants Your Feedback, Drug Courts on Chopping Block, and more

***A bit of federal news: The Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is soliciting public comments and feedback on the...

News

New Database Shows Costs and Expenditures at 2,300 U.S. Colleges

A Washington-based nonprofit that aims to monitor college costs and expenditures released an online database this week that makes it easy for...

Book Reviews

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

This groundbreaking book by lawyer, advocate and scholar Michelle Alexander — in a new paperback edition with a foreword by Cornel West — reframes...

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The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation

In 2008, 5.7 million children were living in extreme poverty – subsisting on half or less than what constitutes poverty in this...

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Residential Instability and the McKinney-Vento Homeless Children and Education Program: What We Know, Plus Gaps in Research

This brief summarizes a study conducted by the Urban Institute of the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth (EHCY) program and...

News

Guide Provides Information for Helping Haitian Refugees

A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers useful information for organizations dealing with Haitian families and children and those...

New Policy Chief at Children’s Rights

Children’s Rights (CR), the child welfare advocacy group, announced Tuesday that William Meezan will assume the position of director of policy and...

News

Well-Known New Orleans Juvenile Judge Steps Down Amid Controversy

Judge David Bell, the former chief juvenile judge of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court in Louisiana and a prominent participant in a...

Opinion

Weekly Notes: Juvenile Court Stats; Profs for JJPDA Reauthorization…and more

NEWS *** The Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice published its Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007 online last week, and also released four...

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