Youth Today
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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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► Reports
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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
