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A Rush to Placement, or a Rush to Judgment?

The latest child protection horror story from New Jersey – this one involving a couple charged with starving and neglecting their adopted...

News

GOP Investigates Sex Ed, Steers Money to Abstinence

Is James Wagoner paranoid, or is the federal government out to get him? The president of Advocates for Youth, a national organization...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Making Gay Youth Feel Safe

It is virtually a rite of passage for teens to be consumed at some point with feelings of isolation. Studies show that...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for December 2003-January 2004

Arts Americans for the Artswww.americansforthearts.orgis a resource from the D.C.- and New York-based organization dedicated to promoting more art education in...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Awards for November 2003

MacArthur Fellows (“Genius Awards”) For: Encouraging talented people to pursue their intellectual and professional inclinations; each winner receives a $500,000 unconditional grant....

News

Congressional Roundup

Job Training Senate sponsors of legislation to reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act do not expect the full Senate to make many changes...

Opinion

Searching for Evidence, Evidently

It’s right up there with the search for the Holy Grail or the Loch Ness monster: no, not the hunt for weapons...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Grants Awarded for November 2003

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation503 S. Saginaw St., Suite 1200Flint, MI 48502(810) 238-5651www.mott.org • National Council on Alcoholism and Addictions, Flint, Mich., $27,300...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

First Nikki, Then Heather—Then Me (and)

Babies Having Babies Each year in the United States, more than 800,000 teens become pregnant. Here, two teens describe the pressures that...

Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Adults: Wake UpOn Hip Hop Brian FrySouthern Christian ServicesJackson, Miss. Your article on hip-hop hit the nail on the head (“Hip-Hop: Love...

Opinion

Enabling Adult Immaturity

“Young people have become more like adults,” writes historian Joseph Kett in Adolescence in America, while “adults have become more like young...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Briefs for November 2003

Attracting Teens Un-Uniformly Every youth worker knows how difficult it is to lure teenagers into programs. Try to make them wear uniforms,...

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Newsmakers for November 2003

Foundations The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (assets: $1.7 billion) board voted to hire CEO Carl Schramm in April 2002. That appears to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Parental Hard Corps

In the children and youth national arena, dreaming up a categorical youth program, getting it enacted into law, securing an appropriation and...

News

U.S. Government to Discontinue Low-Yield Investment in Youth

Washington, D.C.—In an effort to streamline federal financial holdings and spur growth, Treasury Secretary John Snow announced Monday that the federal government...

Opinion

Don’t Be Left Out Standing in Your Field

Etched in my memory is the image of a card I received decades ago. The picture: a lone cow standing in a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for November 2003

A Different Breed: 311 Boyz Are Unlike Other GangsLas Vegas Sun Police in Sin City are perplexed at why a group of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for November 2003

African-American Friendship, Cliques, and Gangs: Young Black Men Coming of Age in Urban America, by Greg Dimitriadis, revolves around a qualitative and...

Opinion