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Tanya Curren is a 2018 Inductee of Kennesaw State University’s Bagwell College of Education Hall of Fame

Tanya Curren is a 2018 inductee of Kennesaw State University’s Bagwell College of Education Hall of Fame in recognition of work in...

Teachers’ strike: Children and adults flap a huge, multicolored piece of cloth.

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Tulsa Groups Worked Together to Provide After-school for Kids During Teacher Strike

The Tulsa Opera, yoga teachers, magicians and first responders helped after-school providers shift into high gear to provide free, full-day activities for...

Foster care: Two young people, a man in open flannel checked shirt, white T-shirt, jeans with short brown hair and a woman with long red hair, a white top and jeans, read their scripts on a stage set.

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Guest Opinion Essay

The Arts, Especially Theater, Can Be Savior for Foster Youth

Extracurricular activities and a social life may seem commonplace to most youth growing up in the United States. However, it is common...

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Hope That Undecided High School Graduates Could Become Thing of Past Inspires Minnesota Effort

Sparks flew in Russ Tesmer’s auto body repair class as a group of students practiced welding on an old car that had...

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Grants

Education and Youth-Focused Community Support Grants

Subject: Education, Youth Development, Youth Welfare, Community Support | Deadline: May 31, 2018 | Amount: $250 - $10,000

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This Youth Development Consultant ‘Started in a Coat Closet’

Rebecca Fabiano is president and founder of Fab Youth Philly. OST Hub editor Sara Hill asked her a series of questions about...

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Guest Opinion Essay

Help Crime Victims By Committing to Restorative Justice

From the federal level to state legislatures across the country, criminal justice reform measures are a hot topic of conversation and proposed...

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NY High School Students Pull Off Gun Regulation Forum for State Candidates

Jessica Moskowitz hesitated before she sat in one of the pews in the back of an Episcopal church. The 16-year-old is Jewish...

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► Reports

Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2017

This latest issue of the annual report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics presents comprehensive...

Personalized learning: Young woman in denim jacket with long dark hair wearing white headphones seated at table looks at white laptop. Bookshelves behind her.

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Guest Opinion Essay

Kids Need More Personalized Learning to Keep Them in School

I recently reconnected with two of my best and brightest former fifth-grade students; let’s call them Maya and Avery. While I have...

2 smiling young women with long brown hair, seated at table, look over papers one is holding; one on left has short-sleeved gray top, one on right has open denim overshirt.

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Guest Opinion Essay

How to Find, Retain High School Students As Peer-to-peer Mentors

In a perfect world there would be a mentor for every teen who wanted one. There would be more for those teens...

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Use SEL Principles to Create Safe Schools, Aspen Institute Urges

The Aspen Institute is urging making schools safer by using social and emotional learning principles. “Safety is about the absence of violence,”...

Football players at practice on a field in Harlem, dust rising from the field, players walking back towards the huddle as defense is regrouping.

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From the Bureaus

For Underdog High School Football Team in Harlem, Fight Is a Way of Life

The weight room inside Frederick Douglass Academy in East Harlem, New York is nothing more than a repurposed classroom. The ceiling is...

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Youth Conservation Projects on Public Land Grants

Subject: Environmental Education, Youth Development, Civic Engagement, Job Training | Deadline: Apr. 17, 2018 | Amount: $90,000

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Social Media a Powerful Weapon in Combating Opioid Crisis, Reaching Teens

It used to be common behavior, but few would consider getting into a car with an open beer today. Public awareness of...

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Guest Opinion Essay

Stopping Child Predator Law: What a Victory for Kids!

“Think of the children!” Among the many people who wail this admonishment when they have nothing useful to say in an argument...

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Guest Opinion Essay

Paths to Success for Young Parents in Foster Care

Research has shown that adolescent parenthood is far more common among young people in foster care than among their peers in the...

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Advocates Express Concern, Hope about Revolutionary Changes to Foster Care System

Recently passed federal legislation is revolutionary in its approach to reorganizing the nation’s foster care system, reform advocates agree, but some are...

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Guest Opinion Essay

Interns to Outcomes: The Post-secondary Experience in the Juvenile Justice Environment, Part 3

As previously covered, clear and timely communication, flexibility, plus a collaborative mindset are the essential elements of a vibrant juvenile justice or...