All posts tagged "Youth Development"

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  Three-Year Results of the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Evaluation

  MDRC This report analyzes the results of the National Guard’s Youth ChalleNGe program, which targets high school dropouts between ages 16 and...

• News

  Spillett to Retire as BGCA President, Clark Named Successor

  Roxanne Spillett, whose nearly $1 million salary as head of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America sparked a congressional investigation of...

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  Non-income Effects of Welfare Receipt on Early Childhood Cognitive Scores

  Children and Youth Services Review New research conducted at the University of Missouri and Central Michigan University looks at the effect that...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  AED Finds Single Buyer, U.S. Programs Expected to Continue

  The Academy for Educational Development is close to being acquired by major North Carolina nonprofit Family Health International (FHI), and, if the...

• News

  Four AmeriCorps Teams Assist with Disaster in Joplin, Mo.

  Stephanie Jackson says she never thought she would need the disaster portion of her AmeriCorps leadership training. But since a tornado struck...

• News

  New Institute Will Offer Juvenile, Child Welfare Court Footage for Research and Training

  A university and film production company are creating what both hope will become a repository for training juvenile justice and child welfare...

• Good Training for Principals Trickles Down

  I served as the founding principal of The International High School @ Prospect Heights in Brooklyn for five and a half years....

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Mentor: The Kid and the CEO

  Mentor: The Kid and the CEOTom Pace with Walter JenkinsMentorHope Publishing175 pages. Audiobook also available. Based on author Tom Pace’s experiences, this...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ Lives

  Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ LivesPeter L. BensonSearch Institute Press198 pages. “Society does not have a youth...

• Federal Background Checks Vital for Youth Programs

  Imagine you are a child having trouble feeling secure in your home environment. Or, maybe your parents are incarcerated. Or, perhaps, you...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  How We Changed Our Name

  In 2009, the American Humanics board of directors moved forward to study changing the organization’s name. Perhaps it would have been easier...

• News

  Even Harvard Agrees: Four-Year Colleges Aren’t for Everyone

  The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...

• Opinion

  Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt

  Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...

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  What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness?

  What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness? Corporate Voices for Working Families  The vast majority of America’s business leaders believe investing...

• Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  Doth the Earmark Trough Runneth Dry?

  The practice of “earmarking” federal money, a Congressional device with debatable impact on the field of youth work, may soon face extinction....

• Weekly Notes: PROMISE Act under new leadership; SCOTUS to look at juveniles questioned in schools; and more

  ***We already posted a piece today on Rep. John Kline and reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The other...

• Youth Orgs Should Ride “Superman’s” Cape

  I heard a colleague suggest that youth-serving agencies are trying to hitch their wagons to the education-reform train; well, more specifically, riding...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Great Group Games for Kids: 150 Meaningful Activities for Any Setting

  Great Group Games for Kids: 150 Meaningful Activities for Any SettingSusan Ragsdale and Ann SaylorSearch Institute Press/Independent Publishers Group223 pages.       This...

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  Report Questions the Value of Character Education

  A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...

• Research

  Social Development Programs Don’t Result in Better Behavior

  Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children  National Center for Education...