www.fema.gov/kids/ is hosted by a smiling, googly-eyed hermit crab. This educational and instructional site strives to show that disaster preparation doesn’t have to ...
In these stories, two teens write about attending single-sex high schools. They describe how the absence of the opposite sex affects their ability to learn and their ...
Cincinnati, a hotspot of urban unrest last month, faces “a mess of a summer,” forecasts a local youth worker who laments that the city is unable to operate a summer ...
Katherine Hughes, Thomas Bailey and Melinda Mechur
This report indicates that school-to-work (S-t-W) activities involving business-education partnerships improve ...
This sixth annual report on attitudes about substance abuse, based on a survey of 1,000 teens (ages 12-17), reveals that the children of “hands-on” parents are less ...
College is tough enough without having to worry about tuition, health insurance and living expenses--but what if you don't even have a family to return to during ...
This report gives the results of the National College Women Sexual Victimization Survey, conducted by the National Institute of Justice in the spring of 1997, of ...
This report, prepared by Abt Associates for HHS, finds that because of the strong economy, more parents working and more left-over TANF [Temporary Aid to Needy ...
In New York City, youth worker Barry Joseph of Global Kids uses a New Voices fellowship to design a web-based human rights project linking New York’s disenfranchised ...
http://school.discovery.com has information and activities for students, teachers, parents, or anyone trying to help kids with school work outside of school. The ...
“With information, organizing, strategic partnering and stamina, [community-based organizations] can succeed in changing the tide of disinvestment and neighborhood ...
University of Minnesota
Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement
Available free at http://carei.coled.umn.edu/Programs/time/start_time/sst.htm
This report presents the findings of a two-year study on Latino employment issues, released in July by the NCLR as part of its State of Hispanic America series. The ...
How would you feel: Every year, the president’s budget tries to eliminate your summer youth development program. Then Congress cuts your meal allocation for the kids, ...
You know it best, how should we fix it? Teens in foster care share their experiences and recommend changes to improve foster care. Their work was part of a ...
