Youth Today
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Press Watch for July-August 2002
Cultural Divide Over Parental DisciplineThe New York Times Cultural differences concerning corporal punishment are causing problems for some immigrant families in the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pubs and Videos for July-August 2002
Education Building a Community School, by The Children’s Aid Society, is a practical manual for school reform. The book provides innovative suggestions...
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Opinion
Fund-Raising Advice from Both Sides of the Desk
I remember those halcyon days when I didn’t have to worry about where money came from. I started my youth work career...
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Opinion
Wanted: Adult Safety Nets For Foster Youth
By Mark Redmond I recently attended a two-day training seminar, “Permanent Family Connections for All Adolescents,” which issued some challenging words to...
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How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents
This report uses data collected in studies of parents involved in 16 welfare and employment programs to demonstrate some shortcomings of the...
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Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control
Examinations of tobacco documents show that the aim of youth initiatives by tobacco companies is self-serving and potentially detrimental to smoking prevention...
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The Young, the Restless and the Jobless
People under the age of 24 account for 53 percent of the nearly 2 million jobs lost since the recession started in...
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Innocenti Report Card
Here is more documentation, broken down by various categories, showing that the U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy and birth rates of...
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Title IX and Equal Opportunity in Vocational and Technical Education: A Promise Still Owed to the Nation’s Young Women
The center charges education administrators with failing to integrate classes in subjects that have been stereotyped as male or female.
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Measuring and Explaining Disproportionate Minority Confinement in Cuyahoga County
Anyone dealing with disproportionate minority confinement might learn something from this study of how to lower the number of black youth committed...
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Digest of Education Statistics: Elementary and Secondary Education
The online digest notes a 6 percent increase in elementary and secondary enrollment from 1994 to 1999, while enrollment in nursery and...
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The Uhlich Report Card
Teens polled in Uhlich’s fourth annual report card on adults gave grown-ups their best reviews yet.
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Institutions vs. Foster Homes
The difference in immediate outcomes between youth in home care and youth in institutional care is small.
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National Conversation on Youth Development
The council’s extensive information-gathering process polled 1,200 youth and adults from more than 400 organizations about what they deem to be the...
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Getting Out the Youth Vote in Local Elections: Results from Randomized Field Experiments
The survey examines the impact of get-out-the-vote campaigns on the voting patterns of people under 25.
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Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform
This report provides evidence that service learning programs, which combine community service with academic study, should be included in education reform and...
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Research
Research of Note for July-August 2002
Sometimes research seems to prove the obvious, but there are times when research challenges what we think we know and has the...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Pathways to Possibilities
Grand Rapids, Mich.(616) 967-6749www.calvin.edu/admin/precoll Objective: To help more youths, especially those in central city communities, enter and complete post-secondary education. In...
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News
Young Mothers Find Safe Haven for Unwanted Babies
In 10 months in 1999, people in Houston found 13 abandoned infants – in trash bins, outside a hotel lobby or stashed under...
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News
Degrees of Stability
“Without a degree here,” says Kathie Carlson Tripp, leadership development executive for the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, “you hit a brick wall.”...
