All posts tagged "Research"

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  Black Millennials in America

  The Black Youth Project recently created and published this comprehensive report meant to give a data-driven and nuanced perspective of the economic,...

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  High Quality Child Care is Out of Reach for Working Families

  The Economic Policy Institute gauges the affordability of child care across the country using several benchmarks and shows that child care has...

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  Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?

  This new report from ChildTrends sheds light on the often-undiscussed result of mass incarceration; how it affects the children of those in...

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  Ending Conversion Therapy: Supporting and Affirming LGBTQ Youth

  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration underwent a careful review of existing research about conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth and...

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  Measuring Up: Educational Improvement and Opportunity in 50 Cities

  This new report from the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education examines the state of education quality and access in...

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  Global Employment Trends for Youth 2015

  The International Labour Organization takes a comprehensive look at the latest indicators of youth unemployment trends and shows that rates around the...

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  Education Research Grants: Low-Cost, Short-Duration Evaluation of Education Interventions

  Subject: Education, Research, Education Technology | Deadline: Jan. 12, 2016

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  State Gun Law Environment and Youth Gun Carrying in the United States

  Researchers from Boston University and Harvard University use data from the CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey to discern an association between the...

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  Committing to Child Survival: A Promise Renewed – Progress Report 2015

  The United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) and A Promise Renewed – a global partnership initiative aimed at ending preventable child and maternal...

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  School Start Times for Middle School and High School Students

  In one of its "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports", the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presents data about and discusses...

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  Disproportionate Impact of K-12 School Suspension and Expulsion on Black Students in Southern States

  This new report from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education highlights the racially disproportionate nature of school discipline in 13...

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  Association of Electronic Cigarette Use With Initiation of Combustible Tobacco Product Smoking in Early Adolescence

  Researchers from the University of Southern California, University of California, Colorado State University and the University of Pennsylvania use data gathered from...

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  School Nutrition and Physical Activity Policies, Obesogenic Behaviors, and Weight Outcomes Policy Research Grants

  Subject: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Health, Child Welfare, Research | Deadline: Oct. 16, 2015

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  Trends in Television Food Advertising to Young People: 2014 Update

  The University of Connecticut's Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity updates their periodical publication on the latest trends and data in...

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  The 2015 KIDS COUNT Data Book

  This annual publication by the Annie E. Casey Foundation uses an index of 16 indicators to comprehensively evaluate child well-being across all...

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  From Statehouse to Schoolhouse: Anti-Bullying Policy Efforts in U.S. States and School Districts

  The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) produced this report to comprehensively examine the anti-bullying policies of all 13,181 school districts...

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  Understanding the Geography of Growth in Rural Child Poverty

  The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Economic Research Service uses census bureau data to analyze and explain the sharp rise in the prevalence...

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  The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls’ Story

  This report authored by Human Rights Project for Girls, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Ms. Foundation for Women...

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  Children’s Budget 2015

  The bi-partisan advocacy organization, First Focus, presents a detailed overview of the latest data on federal spending on children and highlights a...

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  Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources

  Subject: STEM, Education, Youth Development, Research, Higher Education | Deadline: Nov. 3, 2015