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Walsh Act Watch: Delaware Edition

Note: Because little attention is being paid to this in the mainstream media, JJ Today is going to give a brief profile...

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How Colleges and Universities Are Improving Degree Completion

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Amid growing concern over lackluster college completion rates in the United States, this report takes a look...

News

Panel: Corporations Are Key to Increasing Post Secondary Attainment

Corporations need to invest more heavily in job training and tuition assistance programs if the United States is to increase postsecondary...

News

CNCS Chairman Takes NYC Post, Plans to Leave Board

Stephen Goldsmith, interim board chairman of the Corporation for National and Community Service, has been named New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s...

News

Did ex-cons run a gang from their youth program?

False advertising? One of COIL’s buildings holds itself out as the headquarters of Operation Safe Streets, but the project went away nearly...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Do youth groups need volunteer blacklists?

If someone gets kicked out of a youth program for inappropriate behavior with the kids – giving them cigarettes, showing up...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Judge Overturns Gay Adoption Ban

An Arkansas state judge last month overturned a voter referendum that banned unmarried couples from adopting. The law was widely seen...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Immigration Law Spurs Youth Activism

The controversial new immigration law in Arizona has spurred a series of protests by youth and youth organizers, who say the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Gates Foundation Pledges $110 Million to Improve Remedial Courses

In an effort to increase the number of students who complete college, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged up...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

More Students Working Longer Hours = More Years to Graduation

American youths are taking longer to complete college than they did in the 1970s because they have to work more hours...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen Birth Rate Dropped in 2008

The birth rate for U.S. teenagers dropped 2 percent in 2008, reversing two years of increases that had interrupted a 14-year...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Want to Reach a Teen? Try Texting

Mobile texting has become the primary source of communication for 88 percent of teen cell phone users in the United States,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

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...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier