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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Immigrant Influx to Chicago Suburbs Spawns Foreign Language Schools for Kids

The Chicago Tribune A growing immigrant population has spurred an upswing in the number of weekend foreign language schools in the Chicago...

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Federal Crackdown on Kiddie Porn and Predators

Detroit Free Press Over the past three years, more than 100 men have been prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Eastern Michigan...

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Juvenile System Tries not to Lock ’Em Up, Toss Key

Dayton (Ohio) Daily News Two Montgomery County judges are changing the philosophy of their juvenile justice system from one focused on incarceration...

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At-Risk Kids Find the Write Way

Young people in foster care, juvenile justice systems or low-income neighborhoods rarely have a public voice. That is why writing programs can...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Federal Budget Gives and Takes

Congress finally finished fiscal 2008 appropriations the day after Christmas, again packing the budget with pet-project presents. But many in the...

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Campaign for Youth Justice

Washington, D.C.www.campaignforyouthjustice.org Objective: To end the practice of trying youth as adults. In a Nutshell: The campaign teams with national, state and...

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Andrew Bennett

Andrew Bennett Teen CoordinatorNew York State Museum Albany, N.Y. (518) 486-1420www.nysm.nysed.gov/education Age: 21Salary: $14 per hour. About the New York State Museum:...

Opinion

The Power of Babble

“All evidence suggests that narcissism is more common in recent generations,” San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge declares in her popular,...

Opinion

Let’s Stress the Fun in Fundamental

Everyone knows that reading is fundamental; we even have a national organization by that name. Yet a recent report from the National...

Opinion

Shortage of Latino Leaders, Too

On the West Coast, we feel left out of the singular focus on the dearth of blacks in nonprofit leadership. [See “Wanted,...

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No Respect in the Group Home

Age 17L.A. Youth, Los Angeles When I lived with my mom, we were always at each other’s throats. She’d kick me out...

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I Got the Respect I Needed

Age 17L.A. Youth, Los Angeles I got taken away from my mother when I was 3 because she used drugs and physically...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for February 2008

Excellence in Leadership Award For: Leadership excellence by one young person and one youth-led organization each year. By: New Light Leadership...

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State Children’s Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth

The Forum for Youth Investment State children’s cabinets are typically made up of the heads of government agencies serving a state’s youngest...

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Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs

Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Irvine This two-year study of elementary and middle school...

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Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004–05

National Center for Education Statistics The high school dropout rate was 3.9 percent for the 2004-2005 school year – similar to the...

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Educational Attainment in the United States: 2007

U.S. Census Bureau Thirty-three percent of 26- to 29-year-old women have a bachelor’s degree – an increase of 6 percentage points since...

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Moving Backward

Georgetown University Health Policy Institution, Center for Children and Families A federal rule issued in August to limit the expansion of state...

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School or the Streets: Crime and California’s Dropout Crisis

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...

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