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College Isn’t Helping Ill-Prepared Students Catch Up

Everyone over age 40 knows that education is wasted on the young. So why are people getting so worked up about a...

California Parents Pull ‘Trigger’ for School Takeover

Parents in Compton, Calif., south of Los Angeles, have organized the first challenge to one of the state’s poorly performing public schools,...

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HHS Hands Out Bonuses for States That Stepped Up Medicaid, SCHIP Enrollment for Kids

More states were able to secure federal bonus awards this year for their efforts to encourage and increase enrollment of uninsured children...

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More Grandparents Than Ever Raising Children

Nearly 5 million children in the U.S. are being raised by their grandparents, according to data from the American Community Survey (ACS)....

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Child Abuse Legislation Passes Both Chambers

The much-discussed DREAM Act remains in limbo as the Senate and House deal on tax cuts and fiscal 2011 spending. But another...

National Adoption Month: Message received

There are a whole slew of national “days” and “months” devoted to youth issues. We get e-mails alerting us to most of...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Study Says Nurse Visitation Helps Rural Teens

As the federal government pours more money into nurse home visitation programs for new mothers, a study released this week indicates two...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Pew Center Supports Research On Home Visitation Programs

The Pew Center has established 12 new home-visiting research projects to provide policymakers with greater information about how to improve state-based visitation...

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College Board Report Finds Tuition, Grant Aid Increasing

The price of going to any type of college was up again this year, but the actual cost went down for many...

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Nearly Half of Energy Consumed by Kids are “Empty” calories

Where Kids Get Their Empty Calories America’s children are in large part ignoring the layout of the food pyramid, according to a...

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Florida Will Not Appeal Ruling on Adoptions by Gays

The fight over gay adoptions in Florida is officially over. The state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) announced Tuesday that –...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Foster Parents Entitled to Higher Payments

Foster parents routinely complain that are entitled to more money to cover their costs, and a federal court in California recently agreed....

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

DVD: Culturally Competent Parenting

Culturally Competent ParentingFoster Parent College: Training for Adoptive, Kinship, and Foster ParentsNorthwest Media Inc.30 minutes. Interactive DVD plus CD-ROM with Viewer Guide,...

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More Children Being Raised by Grandparents

Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents Pew Research Center The number of children living with their...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Does Early Child Care Affect Teen Behavior?

Earlier this year, a study that seemed to say something astonishing hit the news: that the quality of formal child care that...

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Parenting and Child Development in Adoptive Families: Does Parental Sexual Orientation Matter?

A pressing question regarding the effectiveness of certain adoptive parents has increasingly found its way into courtrooms, resulting in legal proceedings and...

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The Rug Rat Race

For much of the 20th century, there had been a steep decline in the amount of time parents in the United...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Certain Home Visitation Models Will Expand Under Health Reform

The health care reform law signed by President Barack Obama last month will significantly increase federal resources for programs that assist poor,...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Young Mothers @ The Margin

http://www.atthemargin.org Every page has links to the organization’s “Get Involved” YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and store pages. The home page allows viewers to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier