All posts tagged "Race/Ethnicity"

Something to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs From Urban Youth and Other Experts

Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults

All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement

LGBT Communities and the Affordable Care Act

Statistical Bigotry Is Just Bigotry

Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly recently justified racial profiling based on “overwhelming… damning” statistics: It was wrong for [Sanford, Fla., neighborhood watch volunteer George]...

Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings

The New Jim Crow: How Far Have We Really Come?

On this day 50 years ago, more than 200,000 people made the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Culminating in...

Childhood Economic Strains in Predicting Substance Use in Emerging Adulthood

Beth Kassab: The Dream Defenders Are For Real

From the Orlando Sentinel (MCT) Word is getting around. The Dream Defenders are for real. Whether you agree with their demands — chiefly to...

Poverty and Education: Finding the Way Forward

America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013

In the Wake of Zimmerman Verdict, Voices of Anger, Anguish and Resignation

WITH REPORTING BY SARAH AMANDOLARE, LINDSAY ARMSTRONG, CRAIG GIAMMONA, DARYL KHAN, AND CHRISTINE STRIECH NEW YORK–Trayvon Martin wasn’t from any of New...

Firearm Possession Among Adolescents Presenting to an Urban Emergency Department for Assault

The Annie E. Casey Foundation: 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book

Supreme Court Rules on Native American Adoption Case

Arriving quietly Wednesday between the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage was a ruling that will have lasting and significant impacts...

Agencies: Diversity Essential to Maximizing Outreach Potential

When the National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN) held its annual meeting three or four years ago, a representative of one of its...

Love, In Black and White

NEW YORK — Peter Carroll’s first love almost cost him his family and his home when he was just a 14-year old...

Neighborhoods and Infectious Disease Risk: Acquisition of Chlamydia during the Transition to Young Adulthood

UPDATE: Ramapo Revisited, School Board Election and the Future of a Community

SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. — In just about any other community in the nation, last Thursday’s public meeting here set to feature opposing...

Do School Districts Matter?