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- Early School Skills and Behaviors: Precursors to Young Adult Crime?
December 22, 2011 We investigate primary school precursors to criminal involvement in early adulthood.
- Early School Adjustment and High School Dropout
December 22, 2011 Although school attainment is a cumulative process combining mastery of both academic and behavioral skills, most studies have offered only a piecemeal view of the associations between early childhood capacities and subsequent schooling outcomes.
- 2011 Child Well-Being Index (CWI)
December 5, 2011 The 2011 annual release of the CWI reports that children are bearing the brunt of America’s widening income gap and that cuts to education, food stamps, and health insurance programs would drastically worsen the situation.
- Living on the Edge: America’s Low-Earning Families
September 27, 2011 A report from First Focus, Living on the Edge: America’s Low-Earning Families, finds that 40 percent of all children — 30 million kids — grow up in households in which their parents are employed, yet the family still struggles with making ends meet.
- Protecting Children in Tough Economic Times: What Can the United States Learn from Britain?
July 11, 2011 This report, authored by Jane Waldfogel, Ph.D. of Columbia University and the London School of Economics finds that following a successful, decade-long campaign to reduce child poverty by half, the United Kingdom has taken concrete steps to maintain its commitment to reduce child poverty in the midst of deficit reduction, even following a change in government.
- abUSed: The Postville Raid
June 21, 2011 This full-length documentary film, directed by Luis Argueta, weaves together the personal stories of the individuals, the children, the families, and the town directly affected by one of the largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the United States.
- Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation
April 21, 2011 A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, written by Donald J. Hernandez, finds that children who have lived in poverty and are not reading proficiently in 3rd Grade are three times more likely to dropout or fail to graduate from High School than those who have never been poor.
- Latino Legislative Hearing on PreK and the Early Grades
March 24, 2011 The Latino population in the United States is growing at a rapid pace, and the proportion of our nation’s youngest learners who are Latino is increasing even faster.