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6.2KNewsTrump’s Immigration Policy Pushing Children Into Foster Care
The struggle to reunite a Congolese woman swept up in an immigration crackdown with her little girl — and to reunite countless...
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3.9KGuest Opinion EssayHow Closing My Competency-based School Led to Learning What Works
I closed the doors to Missouri’s first competency-based high school after just three years. Our school, based in St. Louis and on...
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3.4KNewsStudents Walk Out to Protest Gun Violence in NY, Atlanta and LA
Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across the country walked out today to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass shooting at...
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1.5K► ReportsThe Road to School: How Far Students Travel to School in the Choice-Rich Cities of Denver, Detroit, NO, NYC, and Washington, DC
Author(s): The Urban Institute – Student Transportation Working Group Published: Mar. 14, 2018 Report Intro/Brief: “How to get to school is an...
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3.3K► NewsmakersFrancis Guzman Receives the Juvenile Law Center’s 2018 Leadership Prize
Francis V. Guzman has been announced as a recipient of the Juvenile Law Center’s 2018 Leadership Prize. Guzman has helped to catapult...
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3.4KGuest Opinion EssayWe Child Welfare Professionals Must Expand Our Objectives to Education
What is our job as child welfare professionals? What should our priorities be? How should we measure success? The answers to these...
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2.1KNewsAtlanta High School Among Many Preparing for Walkout Linked to Parkland Shooting
Thousands of students, administrators and teachers across Georgia and the country are expected to walk out Wednesday for the one-month anniversary of...
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2.9KFrom the BureausThey’re Working to Reform Juvenile Justice With an ‘Art Attack’
The pianist jammed on the Steinway with such force, he stood up to play it. The rest of the orchestra swayed with...
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2.0KGuest Opinion EssayGood Internship Needs Frequent Communication, Sturdy Structure
Timely, accurate and clear communication is the lifeblood of a quality, functional and durable internship. However, there is more to this than...
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4.5KGuest Opinion EssayWhat Los Angeles Child Welfare Leader Bobby Cagle Could Learn from Mick Jagger
One of the problems with the whole child welfare debate is that we all say pretty much the same things — but...
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3.7K► ReportsOur Children’s Fear: Immigration Policy’s Effects on Young Children
The Center for Law and Social Policy documents mental and physical harm that our nation's youngest children are experiencing due to the...
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2.7KNewsAfter-school Advocates Lobbying Congress — Again — for Funding
They’re posting on social media. They’re calling and emailing members of Congress. And after-school providers are talking to parents picking up kids,...
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3.5KGuest Opinion EssayBlack Girls Pay the Price When Police Enter Schools
Sen. Marco Rubio sent a letter to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week wrongly blaming the...
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2.0K► ReportsThe State of Justice Reform 2017
The Vera Institute of Justice provides a comprehensive, up-to-date snapshot of where the nation stands in current efforts at reforming the many...
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3.3KGuest Opinion Essay#MeToo, Women’s Marches, Democrats in 2018: 2 Youth Mentors Talking
Recently, the two sat down for a conversation as two mentors in the field to assess some of the major developments in...
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1.9KGrantsSchool Safety Research Grants
Subject: School Safety, Safety, Child/Youth Welfare, Education, Research | Deadline: May 7, 2018 | Amount: Up to $50,000,000
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19.8KFrom the FieldHow We Found More Black Foster Parents and Confronted the Racial Disparity in Foster Care
I’ve worked in child welfare for over eight years and, from day one, I’ve been struck by the high numbers of black...
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3.6KFrom the BureausNY Students Quick to Throw Themselves Into March Organizing
It was late in the evening on Feb. 16 when Joey Wong’s flight from La Guardia Airport in New York City landed...
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3.5KFrom the BureausConey Island Teens Take First Steps Into Anti-violence Movement
Instead of hanging out, 35 Coney Island teenagers spent their midwinter vacation last week learning to cope with everyday trauma and avoid...
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3.1KNewsActive Shooter Prep for After-school: What to Do, What to Avoid, According to Experts
How do you prepare your youth program to respond to a gun-wielding intruder? Youth programs and schools are anxiously asking themselves this...
