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3.0KNewsNew Study Reveals Higher Rates of Homelessness, Food Insecurity for College Students
A comprehensive survey of 33,000 students in 24 states released last week provides a bleak look at life for community college students...
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2.0KNewsLiving in Two Worlds: Transborder Youth Cross Daily to Seek Educational Opportunity
Eighteen-year-old Vanessa Flores still remembers stumbling over her words on her second day at San Diego City College (SDCC) last fall when...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayWhat’s At Stake for Youth in Federal Budget Are Critical, Crucial Programs
As a new Congress and president take power, we’re entering a period of infinite unknowns.
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Guest Opinion Essay
Data-Driven & Collective Impact: How Youth Agencies Can Show What Works
In his aptly titled book “Show Me the Evidence,” Ron Haskins demonstrates how nonprofits and community programs today must prove their value...
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Grants
High School Student Support Program Grants
Subject: Education, High School, Graduation Rate | Deadline: Feb. 15, 2017
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Guest Opinion Essay
How We Can Build Better Career Pathways for America’s Youth
While the U.S. is on track to have one of its best years for job growth in 2016 since the Great Recession,...
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1.7KNewsA Close Look at Quality: How to Make Your Program Better with Quality Standards
What if a tool existed to make your after-school or summer youth program better? Would you get it and read the instructions?
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssayIncluding Adolescents in Two-Generation Human Service Approaches
Nearly 9 million of the 25 million adolescents in this country live in low-income households today, and of that 9 million, almost...
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Grants
Higher Education Student Support Project Grants
Subject: Education, Higher Education, Youth Development | Deadline: Nov. 28, 2016
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2.1KFrom the FieldYouth Helping Youth: ServiceWorks VISTAs Reflect on 9/11 and Serving Their Generation
To kick off its third year, ServiceWorks – a youth development program from AmeriCorps, the Citi Foundation and Points of Light –...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayAdvocating for Social Security is Advocating for Youth
The national focus on Social Security’s benefits for seniors obscures its role as one of the largest antipoverty programs for children.
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► Reports
What Free Won’t Fix: Too Many Public Colleges are Dropout Factories
The centrist think tank, Third Way, released this report which demonstrates how high the dropout rates are in public higher education. The...
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1.6KNewsAt Working Classroom, Students from Historically Ignored Communities Develop Artistic Vision and Skill
Darkness is thick in the black box theater. Suddenly air rushes in — quick whooshes like the sound of panicked breathing.
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4.4KNewsCombatting Obesity: After-School Programs Promote Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
Robert Hill knows firsthand what it’s like to be an overweight child. “I grew up hating physical activity and only eating foods...
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► Reports
A Glimpse Inside the Coffers: Endowment Spending at Wealthy Colleges and Universities
This report from the Education Trust details the extreme wealth stratification occurring among institutions of higher education across the nation. It finds...
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1.7KGuest Opinion EssayRedouble Efforts to Help More Students Graduate
Just 10 years ago, the nation’s on-time high school graduation rate was hovering around 70 percent, where it had been stuck for...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers | July-August 2016
Hanh Cao Yu, Ph.D. - Vince Yanez - Peter Nadosy - James S. Crown - Kathy Reich - John Irons, Ph.D.
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► Reports
The Condition of Education 2016
The National Center for Education Statistics recently published the most recent edition of its Condition of Education report which uses the latest...
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3.6KNewsBeating the Odds: Boosting School Success Rates for Students in Foster Care
Before moving from her biological mother’s home and into foster care at age 10, Kathy Rando was in the gifted program at...
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4.8KNewsWill ESSA Raise College Access, Track Graduation Rates for Foster Youth?
Before the Allegheny County Department of Human Services set up a data-sharing program back in 2009 with the Pittsburgh Public School District,...
