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Growing a Workforce

Skills with teeth: Pam Fuller, 17, practices using a dental instrument in her dental assisting class at Central Educational Center. Photo: Jamaal...

News

A Plus for Teens Faces Subtraction

Watch the original Youth Today video, “Hard Times at Sunnyside High” Tucson, Ariz.—Every day after school during the past year, 17-year-old Veronica...

Guest Opinion Essay

Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth

On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems...

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Disconnected Youth: A Look at 16- to 24-Year-Olds Who Are Not Working or In School

Congressional Research Service This report seeks to create a specific characterization of disconnected youth for Congress to use in shaping policies...

Report urges more funding for community colleges

The case for investing more resources in community colleges gets a boost in a new report that takes a global look at...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Rule Opens Up TANF Money for Employment Training

If you aren’t watching what your state legislators and governor are doing with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money (TANF), now is...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

New Rule Opens Up TANF Money for Youth Programs

If you aren’t watching what your state legislators and governor are doing with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money (TANF), now is...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Funding available for green jobs training

The Department of Labor plans to release $500 million in federal grants next month for agencies prepared to give “green job training”...

College costly, but so is dropping out of school, report says

What’s the difference between a high school dropout and a college graduate? About $50,000 in income a year. That’s according to a...

U.S. high schools lambasted as ‘dropout factories’

At a time when there’s “no work for dropouts,” America’s schools are functioning as “dropout factories.” That’s according to testimony that Robert...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Obama Budget Cuts Some Youth Programs, Grows Others

President Barack Obama released a proposed 2010 budget Thursday that would eliminate several funding streams for youth programs, including $82 million in juvenile...

News

Pitching New HOPE for Dropouts

Washington—The effort to focus more attention on the national high school dropout problem came to the National Press Club this week, where...

Fourth-Grade Performance Can Predict College Enrollment, Future Income

You can predict whether fourth-grade students are going to graduate from high school or college and how much money they will make...

Will the Push to College Lower Standards?

Could efforts to increase college graduation and retention rates “backfire” by leading colleges to lower standards? Such is one of the main...

News

Spreading Goodwill for Youth

Building youth work: The Goodwill agency in Tacoma, Wash., started a YouthBuild program, showing how Goodwill can partner with other groups....

News

Personal Touch Guides Youths Toward Graduation

Capping it off: A photographer adjusts the tassel on the graduation cap of Jonathan Wade, 19, on senior picture day at Fuller...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Future Agents in Training

Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington Field Office(202) 278-3048Washington, DC 20535http://www.fbijobs.gov/243.asp Objective: To give high school students from around the country a...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pathways to Public Health

http://pathwaystopublichealth.org Designed to encourage youth to enter the public health field, this site provides a variety of resources, information and professional...

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