Youth Today
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More Students Working Longer Hours = More years to Graduation
American youths are taking longer now to complete college than they did in the 1970s because they have to work more hours...
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Administration May Forgo Political Hires at FYSB, Children’s Bureau
The Obama administration may not appoint new heads for the bureaus that oversee child welfare and homeless youth at the Administration for...
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Top Headlines: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Q&A: Pendulum Foundation Executive Director Mary Ellen Johnson
The U.S. Supreme Court may soon rule on a pair of cases pertaining to the legality of sentencing juvenile offenders to life...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Heroin Gang Infiltrates Baltmore Community Center
Gang members working as counselors allegedly used an anti-violence program at a Baltimore community center to extend their heroin distribution business to...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Youth-related Grant Solicitations Skyrocket
The watchword for this week is money, and lots of it. Agencies of the federal government this week and last released a...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
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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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Funding available for work with dropouts, ex-offenders
The Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration is looking for grant applicants interested in working with young adult offenders and high...
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► Reports
Survey of Entering Student Engagement, Benchmarking & Benchmarks: Effective Practice with Entering Students
This report espouses “benchmarking” as a way for community colleges to measure how well they are making sure the youths who start...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
CNCS Names Head of Social Innovation Fund
The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today announced the appointment of Bridgespan Group co-founder Paul Carttar to serve as director...
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College Graduation Rates Stagnate, Despite More Students
More first-time, full-time students are enrolling in college, and more of these students are receiving financial aid, but the percentage of...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
College Diplomas, Income Elude Foster Care Alums
A study being released today of youths who aged out of foster care in three Midwestern states paints a grim picture of...
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Community College Presidents Worry About End of Recovery Funds
Increased enrollments, smaller budgets and lowered expectations that the Recovery Act will continue to add to their coffers and finance more jobs...
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Teen Birth Rate Drops
Births to U.S. teenagers dropped two percent in 2008, reversing two years of teen birth increases that had interrupted a 14-year decline,...
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Feds to Job Corps Sites: No Ifs, Ands, Pools or Golf Courses
A strict interpretation of Recovery Act rules has halted a pair of renovation projects at Job Corps sites that could have provided...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Weekly Notes: Whole Lotta Federal Funding
Funding Action: Engaging Law Enforcement to Reduce Juvenile Crime, Victimization, and Delinquency: For nonprofits or public agencies to help police departments implement...
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Teaching Occupational Skills Along with English
This new evaluation from the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration deals with lessons learned from the Limited English Proficiency and...
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Boy Scout Confidential
Related on the Web Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Rally for Jobs
Photo: Coalition to Save Youth Employment Members of the Coalition to Save Youth Employment demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol last month –...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
More Fed Money for Food at Summer Programs
TANF funds available through the Recovery Act can be used to help run summer food service programs by covering costs that are...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Walmart Gives Grants to Minority-Serving Colleges
Fifteen minority-serving institutions will get $100,000 grants from the Walmart Foundation to help further develop programs that support first-generation college students. The...
