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A New Force to Make Washington Notice Kids
America’s Promise hosts an $8 million start-up to focus on budget and tax polices. Can it help the youth field ‘speak to Republicans’? Bunch of liberals. That’s how official Washing-ton sees many of the country’s major advocates for disadvantaged and at-risk youth. With Republicans controlling…
Author: Youth Today
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Obamacare’s Special Enrollment Period Could Help Youth Signups
Young adults, like these keg standers, could be more likely to qualify for Obamacare’s special enrollment periods. (Photo: doyougotinsurance.com) By Jason Millman Obamacare open enrollment may finally be over, but the opportunities to sign up for coverage aren’t. Some people may qualify for special enrollment…
Author: The Washington Post
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'Census for young people' poses challenging questions
By Sirkka Huish. Bermuda’s young people are to be quizzed to find out what has made them who they are today. Thousands of 18 to 35-year-olds are going to be put on the spot about issues such as sex before marriage, teenage pregnancy and religious…
Author: Bermuda Sun
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Challenge to Our Workforce: Young Adults and Low Literacy
Original Source by Peter Kleinbard Nearly 70% of youth who drop out of school have very poor literacy and other core skills. Indeed, this is the primary reason why they leave school. Yet most funding for dropouts is targeted to those who are most job…
Author: New York Nonprofit Press
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The Atlantic Philanthropies Awards Child Trends $2.2 Million, Four Year Grant
Grant Will Fund Research-to-Results: Improving Policies and Practices for Youth Development THE ATLANTIC PHILANTHROPIES AWARDS CHILD TRENDS $2.2 MILLION, FOUR–YEAR GRANT Grant Will Fund Research-to-Results: Improving Policies and Practices for Youth Development Washington, DC— Child Trends announced today that it will receive a $2.2 million,…
Author: Child Trends
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Not Just a Numbers Game: Budget Cuts Threaten Those Already Struggling
“Oh, I really feel we’ve been led up the garden path…We are the people that worked. We put this country on its feet, and we’re the people that are being hit every which way.” – Diane, age 81, in Dublin, Ireland Across many of the geographies…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Goodbye Zero Tolerance: Program Aims to Cut 'School-to-Prison Pipeline'
Students at Charlestown High School in Boston join a discussion circle on Sept. 27, part of Diploma Plus, a restorative justice program that offers at-risk students guidance, conflict resolution and peer mentoring. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for NBC News By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News…
Author: NBC News
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Evaluation Spotlight: Staying After School in College
Lessons from a university certificate program for after-school staff. 01 Oct 2008 by Erika Fitzpatrick In a mostly glowing initial review of a certificate program for after-school workers in New York City lies a dash of cold reality: the need for pathways of advancement for…
Author: YouthToday
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Discipline with Dignity: Oakland Schools Try Talk Circles
By Fania Davis, YES! Magazine As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers helping to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline. ‘Punitive justice asks only what rule of law was broken, who did it, and how they should be…
Author: The Christian Science Monitor
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More schools rethinking zero-tolerance discipline stand
This article from The Washington Post highlights several Atlantic Children & Youth programme grantees that are working at the local, state and national level to reform zero-tolerance disciplinary policies, which harm children by punishing any rule infraction, regardless of severity or circumstances, and often use…
Author: The Washington Post