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All posts tagged "state policy"
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How Should Justice Policy Treat Young Offenders?
The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience produced this brief highlighting the latest findings in research on adolescent brain development...
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Quality Counts 2017: Under Construction – Building on ESSA’s K-12 Foundation
The latest edition of Education Week's annual "Quality Counts" report focuses on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) across...
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The Future of Youth Justice: A Community-Based Alternative to the Youth Prison Model
This new report from the National Institute of Justice and the Harvard Kennedy School summarizes the ways in which the nation's current...
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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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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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Most States Have Cut School Funding, and Some Continue Cutting
The Center on Budget Policy and Priorities recently conducted a comprehensive survey of state budget documents related to education funding across the...
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Status Offenses: A National Survey
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice examines the laws concerning status offenses state-by-state and finds a wide variation in the laws and how...
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Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
This report by the National Center for Juvenile Justice provides a nation-wide and comprehensive analysis of juvenile crime, victimization, and the juvenile...
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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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How Public Policy Can Support Collective Impact
This report, co-authored by FSG and the Forum for Youth Investment, examines the efficacy of and highlights successful examples of public policies...
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A Great Recession, a Great Retreat – A Call for a Public College Quality Compact
The Center for American Progress presents troubling higher-education realities and calls for the creation of a new federal program along with fundamental...
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Most States Still Funding Schools Less Than Before the Recession
A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities which shows the troubling tendency of states to not return education-funding to...
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Leaders & Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness
In its third iteration, this report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation seeks to statistically analyze, rank and grade the school...
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School Choice Today: Voucher Laws Across the States
The Center for Education Reform scores and ranks the charter school and voucher systems of the fourteen U.S. states in which they...
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Common Core Goes to College: Building Better Connections Between High School and Higher Education
The New America Foundation analyzes the misalignment between higher education and K-12 education since the adoption of the Common Core Standards and...
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Missing the Point: The Real Impact of Native Mascots and Team Names on American Indian and Alaska Native Youth
A research report by the Center for American Progress which analyzes and makes policy recommendations about the mental impact racially-derogatory Native American...
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Federal Funding for Students with Disabilities: The Evolution of Federal Special Education Finance in the U.S.
A policy brief and analysis of the history of special education funding and grant allocation in the U.S. by the New America...
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Left Behind: How LGBT Young People Are Excluded from Economic Prosperity
The Center for American Progress analyzes the disproportionate challenges LGBT youth face in the post-recession economy and makes policy recommendations that can...
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Opportunity Since 1970 – A Historical Report
A statistical study by Opportunity Nation and Measure of America which "uses publicly available data to provide a holistic picture of how...
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Safely Home – Using Community-Based Programs to Reduce Youth Incarceration
A report by Youth Advocate Programs (YAP) that highlights "bright spots," places around the country that have effectively used community-based programs to...
