Youth Today
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Precision Engineering
Creating sound bites that are not only memorable but communicate a message is a passion of mine. Every now and then I...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Staying True to Myself
Vox, Atlanta “Look at what’s she’s wearing. … Is that even a real brand name? Oh yeah, I remember her. That’s the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
When the Violence Hits Home
Vox, Atlanta “Hey, did you hear there’s going to be a shooting outside after school?” my friend Cindy asked me as we...
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More Time for Teens: Understanding Teen Participation – Frequency, Intensity and Duration – In Boys & Girls Clubs
Public/Private Ventures Written halfway through a three-year evaluation of Boys & Girls Clubs, the report examines what it takes to get and...
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What Matters, What Works: Advancing Achievement After School
The James Irvine Foundation and Public/Private Ventures This report on Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year, $58 million...
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Building A Better Bridge: Helping Young Adults Enter and Succeed in College
Youth Development Institute (YDI) YDI tracked 39 young people as they advanced from a earning a GED with the help of a...
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Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytic Report on High School Graduation
Editorial Projects in Education Research Center Released by the America’s Promise Alliance to help launch its Dropout Prevention campaign, this report provides...
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Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Studies show that youths disconnected from school and jobs are more likely to engage in crime, become...
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The Role of the Courts in Improving the Lives of Children and Families
California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care California has overburdened its courts and the child welfare workers who oversee the...
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Third Party Policy and Practice Review, Denver Department of Human Services
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) The recent abuse-related deaths of local children “known to the...
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Health Insurance: Most College Students Are Covered through Employer-Sponsored Plans, and Some Colleges and States Are Taking Steps to Increase Coverage
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Many college students struggle to obtain health insurance because they lose their dependent coverage under their parents’...
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Adolescents with Metabolic Syndrome Have a History of Low Fitness and Physical Activity Levels
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC) Physically inactive youth are between five and six times as likely as active youth to...
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Youth Courts: An Empirical Update and Analysis of Future Organizational and Research Needs
Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence Third in a series of reports funded by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice...
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Student Speech Rights in the Digital Age
Boston College Law School Faculty Papers Partly due to the number of student free speech cases involving digital media, courts are struggling...
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Meeting the Mental Health and Developmental Needs of Adopted Children
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute Noting the significantly higher risk of medical and psychological issues for children adopted from the child welfare...
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Volumetric MRI Study of Brain in Children with Intrauterine Exposure to Cocaine, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana
Children’s Hospital Boston Prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco continues to affect the brain into early adolescence, say researchers who used...
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Geography Matters; Child Well-Being in the States
Every Child Matters Education Fund The well-being of children in different states can vary greatly, finds this report, which ranks states on...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Secret Ingredient: Youth Workers
Granger: “Front-line workers want to do the right thing . . . They need some help and support to do that.” In...
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Research
Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy
University of Washington, Seattle Available at http://www.planetwire.org/files.fcgi/7689_Ab_Only_Ed_Kohler_.pdf Yet another study has confirmed that abstinence-only programs have a minimal effect on risky sexual...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
School Choice: The Findings
Herbert J. WalbergCato Institute133 pages. $9.95. Inspired by his work at the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt University, Walberg cites...
