Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Richard Fernandes
Richard Fernandes Program DirectorSpark the WavePhiladelphia(267) 784-4235http://www.sparkthewave.org Age: 24. Salary: $10,000. My Organization: Spark the Wave runs educational seminars throughout the year...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
… Promote Leadership Skills Through Sports
Putting in time: Instructor Kevin Price teaches Trey Benally, 7, about how to read putts, as part of the NB3 Junior...
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Opinion
Congratulations on Your Engagement
A recent study entitled A Report on the 2007 and 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement provides some distressing news about...
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Opinion
Fix the Adoption Act
By Lynne Miller As a parent advocate at a foster care agency, I worked with parents to help them reunify with...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hit with the Real Costs of College
By Amanda Ly, 18LA Youth , Los Angeles I always imagined myself on my own at a college far from home, seeing...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
My Family Can’t Afford to Get Sick
By Serli Polatoglu, 16LA Youth, Los Angeles A few months ago, my father came home from work holding what looked like a...
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8th Global Conference, National Youth Service: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
The International Association for National Youth Service (IANYS) This is a report on the 8th Global Conference of the International Association...
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With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Public Agenda (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) Only 20 percent of students at two-year colleges graduate within three years and only...
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Student Debt and the Class of 2008
Pew Charitable Trusts The rate of unemployment for college graduates ages 20-24 in 2008 was 7.6 percent; it rose to a...
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Kids’ Share: An Analysis of Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2008
Urban Institute Federal expenditures on children dropped from approximately 20 percent of domestic spending in 1960 to 15 percent in 2008....
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Success Stories From the California Endowment’s Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs
California Endowment The California Endowment has compiled information about obesity prevention programs that work and found that the successful initiatives included after-school...
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Generation M²: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Kaiser Family Foundation The average child’s overall media consumption increased by one hour and 17 minutes every day between 2004 and...
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Teens and Sexting
Pew Charitable Trusts A 2009 telephone survey of 800 teens between the ages of 12 and 17, as well as a series...
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Growing What Works
Public/Private Ventures Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) draws six recommendations from its seven years of working with the Nurse-Family Partnership program in Pennsylvania....
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Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America
Pew Hispanic Center Latino youth are more likely than other American youth to drop out of school, become teenage parents, and...
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Strengthening Indian Country Through Tribal Youth Programs
American Youth Policy Forum & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This report on Tribal Youth Programs (TYPs), which help...
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Good Intentions: The Beliefs and Values of Teens and Tweens Today
Girl Scout Research Institute (GRSI) and Harris Interactive Youth today are far more committed to being responsible, valuing diversity, being accepting...
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The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty: Poverty Statistics for 2008 and Growth in Need during 2009
Brookings Institution and First FocusU.S. Census Bureau Two new research reports provide evidence of the impact of the recession on child...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
How to Talk to Families About Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
Diane T. Marsh, Melissa J. MarksW.W. Norton252 pages. $21.95 paperback. Six million children and adolescents in the United States – one...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Alcohol at Wit’s End
Geoff Gray-LeeWCEE.net/Abject Street MediaStreet Media33 minutes. DVD $149.95. The scene opens in a police station as a teenage prisoner responds to his...
