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Carnegie Units

In a staff change that underscores a shift in priorities at the Carnegie Corp. (assets: $1.7 billion) since Vartan Gregorian became president...

► Newsmakers

Cashing in at Casey

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 1999 annual report is out. Most foundations release their grantmaking decisions on a regular schedule throughout the...

News

Politics of Charter Schools Makes Strange Bedfellows

The struggles of charter schools in the nation’s capital reflects what they’re up against nationwide. Washington, D.C., charter schools are pulling 10...

► Reports

America’s Child Care Crisis: A Crime Prevention Tragedy

This report synthesizes five new studies of varying size and focus, all showing a strong correlation between quality educational child care and...

► Reports

Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities

This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...

► Reports

Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs

Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...

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Teens and Their Parents in the 21st Century: An Examination of Trends in Teen Behavior and the Role of Parental Involvement

This report by a White House advisory body uses statistical evidence to back up intuition: that greater parental involvement reduces a teen’s...

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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth

Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...

Research

Girls and Weight Control: Let Them Eat Cake?

Eric Stice, Rebecca Cameron, Chris Hayward, C. Barr Taylor, Joel Killen Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, December 1999, Vol. 67, pgs...

Research

Does CPS Lead to Incarceration?

Melissa Johnson-Reid and Richard Barth Child Abuse and Neglect, April 2000, Vol. 24, no. 4, pgs. 505-520 Free from Dr. Jonson-Reid, 1...

Research

Video Violence

Craig A. Anderson, Ph.D., and Karen E. Dill, Ph.D. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology April 24, 2000, Vol 78, No. 4,...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride

Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...

News

Studies Slam Excessive Minority Lock-Ups, But Solutions Escape

A flurry of new reports charges that minority youth get unequal treatment in the criminal justice system – yet costly efforts over...

News

Success Depends on Building Coalitions

Most of the media attention on charter schools emphasizes individual struggles or isolated success stories. One of the most exciting possibilities gets...

Opinion

Two-Fisted Double Standards

It is the season when grownups wax hysterical and hypocritical on “teenage drinking.” After years of work in school drug/alcohol programs and...

Opinion

Columbine and the People

Last year’s slaughter at Columbine High School hasn’t been the unifying Pearl Harbor Day for youth violence prevention that most Americans had...

Opinion

Columbine and the Politicians

Advocates for stricter gun control, and their allies seeking a greater national investment in youth development, have long welcomed a national plebiscite...

News

Computers Mean Business For Teens

For the teens in Plugged In Enterprises, the experience is part real-world business, part structured learning and part community service. It is...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

‘Traumatic Transition’ as Workforce Act Displaces Summer Jobs for Youth Program

Scrambling to fill the void being left by the now defunct 16-year-old Job Training Partnership Act’s Summer Youth Employment Program, alarmed youth-serving...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier