Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
More Black Men In Jail or College?
Are black men more likely to go to prison than college? A new report from a Washington think tank says yes, but...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Bush Chips Away At Youth Health Insurance, GAO Says
Congress should stop the Bush administration from letting states use funds from a children’s health program to insure needy adults, says a...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Death Penalty Foes See Hope at Supreme Court
Juvenile death penalty opponents are heartened by recent signals that several U.S. Supreme Court justices are ready to rethink the executions. Justices...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
News Briefs for October 2002
Checking Up on Child Workers: The new head of Florida’s Department of Children and Families, Jerry Regier, said the beleaguered agency will...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for October 2002
Foundations After only a few months with the Ypsilanti, Mich.-based High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Terry Langston got an offer he couldn’t refuse....
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Leaping The Clark Bar
The slow-motion revamping of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (assets: $630 million) is finally gaining momentum.The New York-based foundation, led by former...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Hewlett’s Free Lunch Program Ends
The Menlo Park, Calif.-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (assets: $9 billion) announced in May 2000 that it was planning to establish...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Tumbled Village
When the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (assets: $5 billion) gave $3 million in operating support and a $5 million endowment to set up...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Bob & Rob
Robert L. Woodson Jr., according to a spokesman at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), has “returned to private...
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Opinion
A Delicate Balance
There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for October 2002
Losing Track of Children in State Care is National Problem Orlando Sentinel By failing to keep data on the number of missing...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for October 2002
At-Risk Kids No Disposable Kids, by Larry K. Brendtro, Arlin Ness and Martin Mitchell, suggests ways to reach children whom everybody else...
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Opinion
Of Men and Mice
Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...
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► Reports
2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse
Use of two drugs popular among youth – Oxycontin and Ecstasy – continued to increase in 2001, according to the newest version...
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Mother’s Influence on Teen Sex: Connections That Promote Postponing Sexual Intercourse
Researchers constructed models to assess what effect mother-child interaction had on the timing of a youth’s decision to have sex, while also...
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Modern-Day Youth Gangs
After surveying officials in 1,121 jurisdictions of various sizes nationwide, the report indicates that multiethnic and female-inclusive gangs were on the rise...
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Dreams, Gangs and Guns: The Interplay Between Adolescent Violence and Immigration in a New York City Neighborhood
This report posits a view that immigrant youth and those born to immigrants associate with violent neighborhood gangs out of a need...
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Reflections on the Crime Decline: Lessons for the Future?
Researchers say that the declines in violent crime and homicides since the early 1970s have bottomed out in the waning economy, and...
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► Reports
3rd Annual Uhlich Children’s Home Teen Gun Survey
Whites and Hispanics among the 1,026 teens in this survey were quickest to attribute gun violence to parental behavior and violent entertainment,...
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What Keeps Children in Foster Care from Succeeding in School?
The report lays out the significantly low academic achievement level of the average foster child and finds that academic performance is often...
