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All posts tagged "Education and Training"
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1.2KNewsJill Biden, education chief to kick off summer learning tour
Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will visit Connecticut, Georgia and Michigan this week to examine summer learning programs that are...
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1.2KNewsWork at a school or nonprofit? You could erase student loans
When Melissa Martinez applied to have her student loan debt forgiven more than a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Education told...
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1.3KNewsMental health figures into Pennsylvania’s education funding
Amid a growing population of youth experiencing mental health crises, as well as another spate of mass shootings around the country, Pennsylvania...
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1.8KNewsLuring pandemic-impacted youth back to college will take effort, educators say
Colleges and universities have lost nearly 1.3 million students since spring 2020 as youth of color bear the brunt of the pandemic...
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1.4K► ReportsStudy: Schooling for incarcerated youth is fragmented, inferior
Most of the 50 states have clearly designated which agencies are in charge of hiring teachers for incarcerated juveniles, creating teaching curriculum...
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1.3KNewsAfter year of violence, US schools try to tame tensions
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first week of school was supposed to mark a triumphant return to classrooms at San Francisco’s Everett...
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3.4KNews‘Without language, we are nothing’: New Mexico to pay Native-language teachers equally
Today, students in New Mexico schools can study many of the eight indigenous languages of New Mexico’s 23 tribal entities. It’s an...
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2.1KOpinionThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Re-centering youth work across systems
I’ve been struck once again this month, while reading Youth Today, by how the stories and commentaries demonstrated the complexity of what...
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4.9KNewsAfghan teen leads family into new life in America
During a recent visit to a large urban park a few miles from his home in Tulsa, 17-year-old Shahrukh Khalilbeak pushed his...
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1.1K► ReportsResponsible innovation in technology for children
A new report from UNICEF and Western Sydney University creates a framework for the design of children's digital experiences with well-being and...
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2.6KNewsAnalysis: Former juvenile lifers cite strengths and weaknesses of reentry preparation
Almost all of 112 Philadelphians who have been released from lifetime prison sentences said they participated in some form of prison programming,...
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2.3KOpinionApprenticeships should be part of programming for juvenile offenders
One of the strongest elements of our diversion agreements was a structured community service program. The most successful programs treated juvenile referrals...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Ensuring youth access to people, places and possibilities
Youth don’t grow up in programs or systems, they grow up in communities. The outreach staff who innovated their work with homeless...
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1.4KNewsGeorgia lawmakers push for suicide prevention efforts in schools
As of November, 67 Georgia children had taken their own lives, according to data obtained from the state Bureau of Investigation under...
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1.7KNewsWhat happens when all the student volunteers disappear?
Across the U.S., the pandemic forced school administrators to slash or eliminate student volunteer requirements. Students either abandoned volunteering or strained to...
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2.1KNewsShackles and Solitary: Inside Louisiana’s Harshest Juvenile Lockup
Scrambling to respond to a wave of violence and escapes from other juvenile detention facilities, Louisiana state officials quietly opened the high-security...
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2.0KFrom the BureausAt detention facilities offering high school diplomas, college classes are seen as next step
In mid-February 2022, 20 young men across eight of the facilities started working on an associate’s degree from Middlesex, becoming the first...
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1.0KNewsActivism grows nationwide in response to school book bans
Over the past year, book challenges and bans have reached levels not seen in decades, according to officials at the American Library...
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2.9KNewsA struggling Mississippi school district leans on afterschool programming
When the pandemic hit Jackson, Mississippi, the ongoing challenge to keep teenagers in high school got even harder. As the economic impacts...
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3.5KFrom the BureausDisabilities sometimes go undiagnosed in homeless students targeted by new federal education funds, experts say
The $800 million that the American Rescue Plan earmarked for homeless students is the largest such federal expenditure in a decade, with...
