Youth Today
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School-Based Surveillance of Violence, Injury, and Disciplinary Actions
Paul Kingery and Aaron Alford Hamilton Fish Institute This report uses surveys of students to cast doubt on the validity of data...
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Snapshots of America’s Families II
The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...
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Child Health USA 2000
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...
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Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look
Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...
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Are Teens in Low-Income and Welfare Families Working Too Much?
Robert Lerman The Urban Institute This study uses data from the Urban Institute’s National Survey of American Families (NSAF) to see how...
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Research
Another Reason Not to Smoke
Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., Patricia Cohen, Ph.D., Daniel Pine, M.D., and colleagues Journal of the American Medical Association November 8, 2000,...
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Research
Teen Love as a Four Letter Word
Special section of Child Maltreatment, November 2000, Vol. 5, No. 4 Guest editors: Candice Feiring and Wyndol Furman Available for $25 from...
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Research
Wake Up and Read This
Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council Mary G. Graham, Editor National Academy Press, 2000 Available free...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
School Breakfast Program Misses Two Million Youth
While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Britain Implements National Youth Policy
London—In an effort to pursue a single, comprehensive national youth policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor government has launched a Children...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Guns in Schools Spur Dueling Reports
It sounds like a presidential election: Several groups are counting guns in schools, but no one can agree on the real numbers....
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Restraint Law Reigned In
After two years of wrangling over language involving the use of restraints and seclusion in facilities for children and youth, the Children’s...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism
Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...
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News
When Confidentiality Dies with a Child
Detroit, Mich.—Social workers and Child Protective Services investigators across the nation are adjusting to a new reality – their once confidential cases...
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News
Young Vote Inches Up, Falls Short
Efforts to involve more young people in last month’s elections reaped some moderately good results: The precipitous decline in voting among young...
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Research
Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?
Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...
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News
America’s Promise Mentoring Impact is Foggy in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
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Charter Schools: CBOs’ Risky Pot o’ Gold
LOWELL, Mass.—To understand the enormous benefits of becoming a charter school, consider the Lowell Middlesex Academy: Five years ago, as an...
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Opinion
Editorial
The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...
