Youth Today
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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.”...
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News
In England, Youth Work Training Pays Off
By Tim BurkeLeicester, England—As the youth work field in the United States struggles to develop quality staff training that is widely recognized...
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News
Is This Any Way to Treat Foster Parents?
Buddy the Foster Care Bear works the crowd like a pro. His birthday cake and balloons brighten the lobby of a Trenton,...
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Opinion
Youth Workers Beyond Competence?
By Michael Heathfield I am in the joyful position of being both insider and outsider to youth development work in the United...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Web Watch for July-August 2002
Management Internet Nonprofit Centerwww.nonprofit-info.org/npofaq/index.htmlfeatures information on more than 100 issues involving operation of nonprofit agencies. Using an easy-to-navigate frequently asked question...
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News
German Youth Work Speaks Many Tongues
By Isabelle de PommereauFrankfurt, Germany—Here in Europe’s most multicultural city, youth work is administered in a way that would seem, well, foreign...
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News
Youths Flee Somalia, Flood Land of Lakes
Minneapolis—In the late 1990s, Minneapolis faced a surprise dilemma: This heartland city had suddenly become the preferred U.S. destination for refugee families...
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News
RFK’s Childhood Pal Carries On – Alone
A lot of people in Washington are skittish about discussing the friendships that bring them to the inner circles of power. Not...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Awards for May 2002
Freddie Mac Youth Leadership Award For: Outstanding leadership by someone under 21 whose services improve the lives of young people.By: The Freddie...
