Youth Today

Newsmakers for February 2002

Foundations The New York-based Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s policy shift to focus on strengthening urban youth service agencies in the Northeast has...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for February 2002

Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

News

The Day Starts at 3

by Richard Rothstein The art of Jacob Lawrence, the magnificent African-Amer-ican painter who wove color, shape, history and sociology into emotionally powerful...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Civic Education Project

Evanston, Ill.(847) 467-2572www.ctd.northwestern.edu/cep Objective: To promote civic responsibility among young people. In a Nutshell: CEP staff members work with teachers and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Web Watch for February 2002

Civic Engagement Community Building Resource Exchangewww.commbuild.org links visitors to a large, regularly updated database of resources and information about innovative and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

A Youth Worker’s Bumpy Road to National Success

ONE DAY, ALL CHILDREN… The Unlikely Triumph of TEACH FOR AMERICA and What I Learned Along The WayWendy KoppPublicAffairs, New York187 pp.,...

Research

Just Say No to Lice, but not to Nits

Lice inspections have become a fact of life in schools and children’s programs across the country, with children required to leave school...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

CBO Access to Funds is Key in Education Bill

While the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) squeezes into a House-Senate conference committee with wildly disparate authorization levels,...

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First Installment of National Strategy for Suicide Prevention Unveiled: Goals and Objectives for Public, Private Sectors

United States Surgeon General Surgeon General David Satcher, flanked by leaders of the public and private suicide prevention community, unveiled his report...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Pros and Cons of Single-Sex High Schools

By Liesel Haskell, 17 My alarm clock is blaring – it’s 5:30 a.m. I jump out of bed and head for the...

Opinion

Lost Time for Learning

I have written this op-ed in different forms and in different places since 1979. It is spring, and that can only mean...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Aging Out @ COOL

National groups composed of college students have always had a hard time gaining financial or programatic traction because of the nation’s vast...

Opinion

Have Faith, but Deliver Results

President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...

News

A Peek at President Bush’s Youth Policy

The federal government’s biggest after-school initiative dangles over the heads of youth-serving organizations like a pi-ata gorged with cash but hung too...

Research

Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

Opinion

Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

► Reports

Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-99

U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...

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Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look

Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

School Breakfast Program Misses Two Million Youth

While about half of the estimated 12 million children from eligible households received free or reduced-price school breakfasts in the 1999-2000 school...

News