All posts tagged "Research"

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  Smart and Connected Community Development Research Grants

  Subject: Community Development, Technology Education, Research | Deadline: Feb. 16 ,2017

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  Debtors’ Prison for Kids? The High Cost of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Justice System

  The Juvenile Law Center conducted research in all 50 states to analyze the financial burden imposed on youth and families involved in...

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  World Employment and Social Outlook 2016: Trends for Youth

  This report from the International Labour Organization provides a comprehensive look at current employment statistics for youth worldwide and discusses the trends...

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  Grades 7-12 Math Education Classroom Research Grant Program

  Subject: Education, Math Education, Research | Deadline: Nov. 4, 2016

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  What Free Won’t Fix: Too Many Public Colleges are Dropout Factories

  The centrist think tank, Third Way, released this report which demonstrates how high the dropout rates are in public higher education. The...

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  Family Strengthening Research Grants

  Subject: Family Support, Parenting, Research, Education, Youth Welfare | Deadline: May 20, 2017

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  Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBTQ Youth

  This new report from the Center for American Progress' Movement Advancement Project shows how LGBTQ youth are vastly over-represented in both the...

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  High Hopes and Harsh Realities: The Real Challenges to Building a Diverse Teacher Workforce

  The Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution recently wrote and released this report detailing the current and stark lack...

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  Health Risks Among Sexual Minority Youth

  This new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses the first nationally representative study of U.S. lesbian, gay and...

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  Early Child Care and Education Policy Research Grant Program

  Subject: Child Welfare, Health, Education, Policy, Research | Deadline: Mar. 22, 2017

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  No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State

  The National Conference of State Legislatures prepared this report to highlight the troubling state of the current education system in the U.S....

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  A Glimpse Inside the Coffers: Endowment Spending at Wealthy Colleges and Universities

  This report from the Education Trust details the extreme wealth stratification occurring among institutions of higher education across the nation. It finds...

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  World Youth Report on Youth Civic Engagement

  The United Nations prepared this report to give a comprehensive and current outlook on youth's participation in economic and political life around...

• News

  Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program Releases New Research, Funding Uncertain

  New reports on five years of research shows what works in teen pregnancy prevention.

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  Educational Exclusion: Drop Out, Push Out, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

  The Gay, Lesbian, & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) examines the ways in which school systems disproportionately discipline LGBTQ youth while also failing...

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  Trends in State and Local Expenditures on Corrections and Education

  The U.S. Department of Education produced this report as part of an effort to call on states to invest in education instead...

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  The Early Childhood Workforce Index

  The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley recently published this report establishing and tracking...

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  The State of the World’s Children 2016: A Fair Chance for Every Child

  UNICEF's latest State of the World's Children report makes the case for aggressive action to help the world's hundreds of millions of...

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  Facility-level and Individual-level Correlates of Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities

  This new report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics uses 2012 survey data to show that the occurrence of sexual abuse in...

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  The Case for Improving U.S. Computer Science Education

  The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation authored this report which which uses comprehensive education data to highlight key problems in the way...