All posts tagged "Research"

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  America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future

  The Education Testing Service takes a troubling look at the state of the upcoming generation's competency in literacy, numeracy and problem solving...

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  Wired to Learn: K-12 Students in the Digital Classroom

  This new white paper prepared by the Center for Promise at America's Promise Alliance examines the efficacy and scope of digital learning...

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  Surviving the Streets of New York: Experiences of LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex

  This new study by the Urban Institute documents the lives of vulnerable LGBTQ (and other) youth in New York City and makes...

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  Building the Evidence for Family Group Decision-Making in Child Welfare

  Subject: Child Welfare, Research, Family, Parenting | Deadline: Apr. 24, 2015

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  Comprehensive Community Initiatives – Case Studies of Programs in Atlanta, Orlando and New Orleans

  America's Promise Alliance presents a three-part report highlighting the achievements of three transformative community development efforts from three different southern cities and...

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  Child Health Research Career Development Award Program

  Subject: Child Welfare, Youth Welfare, Career Development, Health, Research | Deadline: Apr. 15, 2015

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  Beyond 4 Walls and a Roof – Addressing Homelessness Among Transgender Youth

  The Center for American Progress outlines the unique social and economic struggles the ever-growing population of homeless transgender youth face across the...

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  Grade Level: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2014

  The Online Learning Consortium reports on the state of the online higher education industry. They find that it has experienced its slowest...

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  Closer to Home: An Analysis of the State and Local Impact of the Texas Juvenile Justice Reforms

  This recent report from the Council of State Governments Justice Center and Texas A&M University presents findings which show that youth in...

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  The CDC National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention: Building the Evidence for Community- and Policy-Level Prevention

  Subject: Youth Violence, Safety, Youth Welfare, Youth Development, Community Development, Research | Deadline: May 4, 2015

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  A New Majority: Low Income Students Now a Majority In the Nation’s Public Schools

  This new research bulletin authored by the Southern Education Foundation analyzes statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics, illustrating the troubling...

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  Quality Counts 2015: Preparing to Launch – Early Childhood’s Academic Countdown

  Education Week examines the policies and structures of early-childhood services and programs across the nation. Also in the report is a comprehensive...

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  Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Research Network on Pregnancy-Related Care Program

  Subject: Health, Child Welfare, Parenting, Youth Development | Deadline: Mar. 2, 2015

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  Levels and Trends of Child Mortality 2014

  In 2014, the United Nations Children's Fund and the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation released the latest iteration of its...

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  The Mazda Foundation – Education, Literacy, Environment, Culture, Social Welfare, and Research Grants

  Subject: Education, Literacy, Environmental Education, Community Development | Deadline: July 1, 2015 (Applications accepted beginning May 1.)

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  Current Term Enrollment Report – Fall 2014

  The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center recently released this latest summary and examination of higher education enrollment statistics. They found, among other...

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  The Solitary Confinement of Youth in New York: A Civil Rights Violation

  A report prepared by the New York Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights which examines the legality and effects...

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  Grants to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs Designed Specifically for Young Males

  Subject: Youth Pregnancy, Youth Development, Education, Research | Deadline: Mar. 3, 2015

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  Back to School: Exploring Promising Practices for Re-engaging Young People in Secondary Education

  America's Promise Alliance's Center for Promise summarizes and discusses the variety of ways in which educators, and those in other sectors, seeking...

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  2014 Native Youth Report

  The President of the United States, Barack Obama, and his administration recently announced the launch of a new initiative to increase educational...