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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

Feds Boot Up Funding For Youth Technology

While private sector support of youth technology programs is a major element of overall funding, the federal government is also a major...

News

Got Busted? On Drugs? In a Gang?

Getting arrested for violating the curfew here earns kids a police escort to court – a huge one, with a shiny wood...

News

Indy Builds a Front Porch, Gov. Bush Likes the View

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—If Texas Gov. George W. Bush becomes president, the White House may get a new twist on Harry Truman’s custom-made front...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Do Kids Count in Congress?

By Sue Badeau Members of Congress want us to believe that children are a very high priority. So day after day they...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Doing What It Takes to Survive

BY DEAN TORRES What does it take to put food on the table, put clothes on your back, and keep a roof...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Getting By on Crayon Money

Let me ask you something: Have you ever been ashamed of being on welfare? I know I have. I grew up knowing...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Columbine Reports Cite Media, Congress Culpability

On the first anniversary of the April 20, 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., a flurry of reports,...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Top Weapon in Teen Smoking Is Teens

By Amy Bracken Less than a year after a bitter struggle with GOP lawmakers who threatened its very existence, Florida’s partly youth-driven...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Fatherhood Sites Get Help from U.S.

Ten states have been selected to participate in a waiver demonstration program designed to improve the opportunities of young, unmarried fathers to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth

In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...

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