The Obama White House put its spotlight on bullying today, hosting a bullying prevention conference, as members of Congress introduced legislation aimed...
Cold, hard facts are unassailable, but often are disregarded. Such ignorance comes with looming peril. Here’s a pair of textbook examples. Fact...
Advocacy group Generations United last week released a report on the importance of Social Security for children, particularly those raised by grandparents,...
The Washington-based Academy for Educational Development announced that it will sell off all of its programs and assets in the wake of...
In 2009, the American Humanics board of directors moved forward to study changing the organization’s name. Perhaps it would have been easier...
The battle over government money for for-profit colleges moved into the Defense Department today as a Senate subcommittee heard how little the...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the first of two cases this month about how state officials can interact...
A National Youth Summit, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, will bring together hundreds of youths and representatives of youth-related organization...
Child Trends Thirty-three social intervention programs were studied to conclude their effectiveness specifically on Latino/Hispanic children in a variety of categories. Overall,...
Child Trends This study examined findings from 53 random experimental evaluations of social intervention programs and their effects on African-American youth and...
National Center for Postsecondary Research More students enroll in community colleges as opposed to four-year institutions each year, mostly because of the...
The 2011 Continuing Resolution is now in the U.S. Senate for consideration, facing a March 4 deadline. Most observers predict a showdown...
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 organizations, called on Congress today to defeat an...
What has happened to youth who dropped out of school in the 90’s? Jonathan works in a community college as security, still...
Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today introduced an amendment to the Republican’s Continuing Resolution...
President Barack Obama released his 2012 budget today, which would fund most youth-focused programs and agencies at equal or greater levels to...
Late Friday, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed continuing resolution bill for fiscal 2011 spending, which includes plans to eliminate completely...
Enrollment growth at community colleges slowed this fall, rising just 3.2 percent, dramatically less than the 11 percent and 17 percent increases...
A Government Accountability Office report on federally funded employment and training programs, more than half of which serve youth, shows the roughly...
The Government Accountability Office said today that an internal review of the need to issue a revised report on recruiting by for-profit...