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Community-wide Systems That Promote High School Completion

Youth develop across multiple domains that are relevant to academic success. While schools focus primarily on cognitive development, many of the supports young people ...

A Tool to Examine State Child Care Subsidy Policies and Promote Stable, Quality Care for Low-Income Babies and Toddlers

This tool, part of CLASP's Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care project, is designed to provide a policy framework that lays out child care subsidy policies ...

Erica Woda’s Tenacity Helps to Get Children Off the Couch

Erica Woda has willed to life the nascent program Level the Field, which brings sixth graders from a Washington Heights school into the mentorship of Columbia ...

Accessing the TANF Emergency Fund

Senate Finance Committee Releases Job Creation Legislation

‘Daddy, Are We Rich?’ and Other Tough Questions

Children can say the darnedest things, but when they start asking financial questions, it’s best to be prepared.

CLASP Webinar on Extending Home Visiting to FFN and FCC

The Glee Generation

Broadway babies are enthusiastic about musicals and perhaps will become composers, lyricists and choreographers themselves.

Hasidic Jews in Israel Protest Ruling on School

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews took to the streets to support Hasidic parents refusing to comply with a ruling against ethni

Teaching Engineering to Children

A reader responds to an article about the qualities of teaching engineering to young students.

In Provincetown, a Cheer for Proposition 8 Ruling

While the news that a court had struck down Proposition 8 was welcome, many same-sex couples celebrating Family Week faced more pressing issues — like play dates and ...

Mr. Obama and No Child Left Behind

President Obama has some good ideas for reworking No Child Left Behind. Now Congress must strengthen the law.

Court Upholds a Sex-Abuse Conviction, Reluctantly

In hearing Jesse Friedman’s appeal of his sexual abuse conviction, a court excoriated the trial judge, prosecutors and investigators.

Indiscriminate Budget Cuts at What Toll?

The recent House proposal to slash domestic spending to 2008 levels would mean millions lost in funding for early childhood programs.It's easy to give short shrift to ...

For Years, Deaf Boys Tried to Tell of Priest’s Abuse

The young victims of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy began alerting the authorities in the mid-1950s.

Audio Conference: Braiding Funding Streams to Support Integrated Service Delivery

In order to use public funding to support an integrated approach and to account for the different needs and demographic characteristics of participants, organizations ...

Media Advisory: Advocacy Groups Host Briefing to Discuss the State of Early Learning in California

Publish Date: Monday, September 27, 2010

A Crisis Ignored

Economic recovery is not occurring for everyone, and those who struggled most to find employment before the economic downturn collectively are worse off today than ...

Back Where He Belongs

While it is heartening that a Delaware school district has allowed Zachary Christie back to school, too many communities are hurting students with overzealous ...

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