America's Diversity of Children

A new policy brief from the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. (CROCUS) by William T. Gormley, Jr., Karin Kitchens, and Shirley Adelstein at Georgetown University explores the effects of state-funded pre-K programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on different population groups to understand if middle-class families benefit from the program.

Federal safety net initiatives lift millions of children out of poverty and mitigate the scope and impact of problems ranging from illness to hunger.

The 2012 Annual Release of the CWI reports that American families’ economic decline preceded the recession, jeopardizing both middle class and low income children.

A special Child Well-Being Index (CWI) report from Duke University tracks trends over time in percentages and numbers of middle and high school students exposed to four forms of peer-to-peer adolescent violence in schools, specifically: threat without injury; threat with a weapon without injury; intentional injury without a weapon; and injury with a weapon.

This Foundation for Child Development funded volume: Improves the understanding of how the well-being of American’s children can be measured and improved The first book of its kind to address the issue of developing and Improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index Includes a systematic description and presentation of a unified approach to these topics The volume attests to the evolution of the Child Well-Being Index and asks what it promises for understanding the progress — or lack of progress — in enhancing the life prospects of all American children.

This report uses a broad quality-of-life measure based on 25 indicators of children’s well-being to examine differences in the welfare of children across the United States.

Investing in Public Programs Matters: How State Policies Impact Children’s Lives, focuses on the results of the 2012 STATE Child Well-Being Index (CWI) — a comprehensive state-level index of child well-being modeled after the Foundation for Child Development’s NATIONAL CWI. The STATE CWI draws from the most comprehensive set of data used to form a state index of child well-being.