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Get the scoop in the 2008 contest and listen to a special CFK podcast with Bryan Doerries, program director of Alliance for Young Artists and Writers, which administers the Scholastic Art and Writing Award, and two of the high school students who took top honors in photography.
Teenagers in foster care often have stories to tell—but lack the tools to tell them. CFK looks at how the Center for Digital Storytelling has provided those tools to participants in their program, and helped create valuable teaching tools for those who work with teens in care.
Hampton, Virginia, a 400-year old city once dubbed “Crabtown” for its abundant seafood, has an exciting new natural resource: youth as change agents. In April 2007, 40 community leaders from coast to coast gathered there for an “Innovations Site Visit” to learn more about the city’s award-winning, holistic model for youth civic engagement.
Chemicals have become so much a part of our world—in our toys, household goods, furniture, and even food—that we need a better system for getting the facts and minimizing risks to children and adults alike. Jan Richter's blog takes a look at what's up, what's working and what more can be done.
SparkAction's Shane Gooding gives us her take-aways from a 2010 Society for International Development workshop on high-tech ways to engage hard-to-reach teens.
What's the take-away from the research on abstinence-only education, rising teen pregnancy rates and Child Trend's educational attainment findings? Our blog puts it together for you.
A look at reactions to the Obama administration's 2011 budget proposal from across the field.
Money makes a lot of things happen, but can it drive more states to tackle comprehensive school reform? States have been working hard to put in place the changes required to apply for the Race to the Top funds. Our Jan Richter looks at what it means, and what states are doing to try to earn the money.
In the “land of plenty,” 17 million children don’t get enough to eat. A December 8, 2009 Coalition on Human Needs’ webinar addressed the surprising connections between hunger and obesity, and how economic hardships impact American diets, and young people’s physical and mental health and learning.
The health reform plan in the House repeals the popular, effective Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)—even though one of President Obama's first and much-touted acts in office was to reauthorize CHIP after it had been vetoed twice by President Bush. In this article, Trudy Lieberman looks at what could happen to CHIP, why it matters and why it's not getting much media coverage.
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