Youth Today
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Abstinence Dominates School Sex Ed
Fewer than half of the country’s sex education classes offer information on where to get birth control (45 percent) or how to...
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News
Boot Camps Get a Kick in the Head
By David J. Krajicek Military-style boot camps for juvenile offenders have proven to be no more effective and no less costly than traditional...
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News
Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate
By Amy Bracken Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Conflicting Views On Dropout Rate
Two recently released reports offer conflicting views on U.S. education. The first, “Do You Know… The Good News About American Education?,” sponsored...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Executioners Kick Off 2000 with Juvenile Offenders
More juvenile offenders were executed in Virginia and Texas last month than have ever been executed in a single month in the...
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Opinion
How About Education, Competence – and a Pay Raise?
By Mark Krueger Turnover and incompetence among youth workers are serious threats to youth development. Across the country employers are struggling to...
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Opinion
The Case of the 11-Year-Old Killer
PONTIAC, Mich. In a nationally televised ruling last month, Oakland County Probate Judge Eugene Moore did not just reject an adult prison...
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News
The Case of the 6-Year-Old ‘Refugee’
By Amy Bracken The international hot potato over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez of Cuba landed in the lap of a family court judge...
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Opinion
Keeping Our Eyes On the Prize
BY KAREN PITTMAN The new millennium is upon us. Reflection is required. What have we accomplished over the past few decades? We...
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► Newsmakers
Shay’s Sashay
In one of the children and youth field’s most surprising and important leadership developments in a decade, Shay Bilchik, the presidentially appointed...
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Corralling Recent Events
One of D.C.’s more interesting gunsmoke duels is over. The shoot-out between Bill Novelli, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and...
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Pig Headed Pierce
Bill Pierce, president of the 130-member National Council for Adoption (NCFA) since its founding in 1980 retired at year’s end. Pierce surely...
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Packard Packs, UPS Delivers, Reader’s Digest Shrinks
Now you see him, now you don’t. That’s the story on John Govea brought on board by the Packard Foundation a year...
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► Reports
Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sex
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) Teens who drink are seven times more likely to have sexual...
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To Establish Justice, To Insure Domestic Tranquility
The Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Violence, fear of crime, the proliferation of firearms and racism in the criminal justice system have all...
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Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol Drug Strategies
This report on the impact of alcohol abuse examines drinking from several perspectives, including public health, criminal justice, the workplace, treatment and...
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The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and Their Families in America’s Largest Cities
Annie E. Casey Foundation Babies born in the nation’s 50 largest cities are likely to start life at a significant disadvantage compared...
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Reporting Crimes Against Juveniles
U.S. Justice Department, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) Violent crimes against juveniles are less likely to be reported to...
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Research
Youth Experiences that Make a Difference for Girls Defining Success:
David Krane and Julia Resnick Girl Scouts of the USA Study Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates, Inc. September 1999 Executive summary...
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Research
The Link Between Violence to Animals and People Protecting Children
A Publication of the American Humane AssociationVol. 15, No. 2, 1999Available for $11 from Robyn Alsop, editor, (303) 792-9417, or children@americanhumane.org. This...
