Produced by: National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
The YEF Institute has published a new report highlighting promising city efforts to improve the lives of children, youth and families in communities with ...
About one in three American Indian students in Montana will drop out of high school, according to a recent study. It's a statistic that's higher than the ...
An evaluation of the Texas 21st Century Community Learning Centers shows that students in high-quality centers had fewer disciplinary incidents, were more likely to ...
Sarah Huff is one of The Corps Network 2013 Corpsmembers of the Year. She tells a powerful -- and humorous -- story of how a job of miserable conditions in a tough ...
You Can't Build Peace with a Piece, a campaign organized by young people of color in the Los Angeles area, released this comprehensive statement and recommendations ...
A case study looks at the March 1, 2013 op-ed in The Hartford Courant and the two reports it covers: a great success in media highlighting important ...
Corps are powerful youth development programs that give young people real-world skills. Here’s a look at one: the Baltimore Center for Green Careers, which offers ...
In this article, YouthBuild Brockton graduate Lashon Amado weaves a pathway from high school dropout, to 2009 YouthBuild Brockton graduate, associate degree in ...
Like a lot of school superintendents, Kathy Burkhardt knows that despite her district's efforts to help struggling students, they aren't addressing the real ...
Students from the Voices of Youth in Chicago Education (VOYCE) have been fighting against an overreliance on suspensions for minor behavior offenses in Chicago ...
Ben Simon, the young founder of the Food Recovery Network, sparked a national movement for food recovery while a student at the University of Maryland.
In 2004, Lumina Foundation for Education launched an innovative national reform initiative, Achieving the Dream (ATD), with the purpose of increasing the persistence ...
What happens when a young person gets a chance to change the odds? Germain Castellanos, a graduate of the Youth Conservation Corps, Youthbuild and AmeriCorps, has ...
Produced by: National Institute for Out-of-School Time
When it comes to improving the quality of afterschool programs, managers hold the key. That's one lesson from a new study about how participation in a ...
