All posts tagged "Race/Ethnicity"

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Lawyers for Immigrant Youth

  Microsoft Corp., actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments have formed an organization to assist the approximately 8,000...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  No More Labels for Me

    LA Youth, Los Angeles I was in seventh grade when people started to get curious about what I was. Most kids...

• Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises

  Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...

• Burns Releases First in Series of DMC Reports

  The San Francisco-based Burns Institute (BI) has released the first installment of “Adoration of the Question,” the first in a series of...

• Feedback on DMC, JJ Reform Stories

  We received several letters about a package on juvenile justice reform that appeared in our print edition (“A Tale of Two Reforms,”...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Seeing Beyond Ourselves

  Age 20NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK American history lessons teach us that presidential candidates have, until now, always been white men. So...

• News

  Discontent on DMC

  [Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...

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  Unaccompanied Children in the United States

  Vera Institute of Justice Each year, thousands of children are separated from their parents after deportation proceedings, but volunteer legal services for...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

  Ta-Nehisi CoatesSpiegel & Grau/Random House227 pages. $22.95. This brilliant memoir reflects on the challenges faced by two African-American brothers growing up. Ta-Nehisi...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Parents Spared in Immigration Raids

  A federal raid on a kosher meat plant last month resulted in hundreds of arrests of allegedly illegal immigrants, but in contrast...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  YouthLink Online

  http://www.hispaniclink.org/youthlink/about.htm This site, hosted by the Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation, publishes articles, poems, personal stories, plays and art work of English- and...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  The Trouble with Black Boys … and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education

  Pedro A. NogueraJossey-Bass306 pages. $24.95. While researchers disagree about the reasons for the struggles of young African-American males, here an urban sociologist...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Paul Robeson Academic International School of Excellence (PRAISE)

  Stand-up Kids: The PRAISE Academy helps boys lift themselves. Johns Hopkins University Baltimore(410) 467-1605www.paulrobesonacademy.org Objective: Develop the academic and social skills of...

• X%$*! Box Live

  These screen names from XBox Live reveal one way players express racism. So you think you’re providing constructive activities for kids by...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Immigrant Influx to Chicago Suburbs Spawns Foreign Language Schools for Kids

  The Chicago Tribune A growing immigrant population has spurred an upswing in the number of weekend foreign language schools in the Chicago...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Redefining What It Means to Be Black in America

  National Public Radio (NPR) Author and NPR senior correspondent Juan Williams says that “one of the most damaging forces tearing at young...

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  Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America’s Children

  The Urban Institute With federal immigration raids on the rise, this report examines what happens to the children of adults who are...

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  Repeat Teen Childbearing: Differences Across States and by Race and Ethnicity

  Child Trends Although the teen birth rate reached a record low in 2004, nearly 20 percent of teen births that year were...

• Research

  More than Homework, a Snack and Basketball: Afterschool Programs as an Oasis of Hope for Black Parents in Four Cities

  The Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Available at http://www.baeo.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/mottSummary.pdf Black parents have a deep understanding of the need for high-quality after-school...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Pubs and Videos for November 2007

  AFTER SCHOOL Afterschool Style in Practice:25 Skill-Building Meetings for StaffTamara Sniad, Claudia Weisburd, Sarah MelloCenter for Afterschool and Community Education/Foundations Inc.182 pages....