Field Guide Shares SEL Best Practices for Out-of-School Time
The Susan Crown Exchange and the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality are excited to announce Preparing Youth to Thrive:...
Wallace Foundation Afterschool System Report Has Implications for Milwaukee
With many cities showing an interest in afterschool system building and research providing a growing body of useful information, this...
Taking Attendance: An Analysis of Greater Milwaukee's Teacher Workforce
In a recent report, the Public Policy Forum takes comprehensive look at public school teachers in Greater Milwaukee. After a detailed...
America's Biggest Problem Is Concentrated Poverty, Not Inequality
According to a newly released study from Rutgers University, the United States is experiencing major gowth of geographically concentrated...
New Orleans Links Fiscal Scans on OST and Opportunity Youth Resources
Community Baptist Ministries, the Cowen Institute and the Forum for Youth Investment have teamed up to explore public investment in young...
CASEL Guide: Effective Social and Emotional Learning Programs—Middle and High School Edition
This CASEL Guide provides a systematic framework for evaluating the quality of social and emotional programs and applies this framework...
Avoiding the Attendance Slump: Strategies to Maximize Learning Time in June
There is one month when students in many schools lose learning time: June. In 2013, NYC elementary and middle schools saw their average...
Wisconsin Ranks 13th on Indicators of Childwellbeing, Yet Disparities on the Rise
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's recently released 2015 Kids Count Data Book marks Wisconsin as 13th best on measures of economic...
Heavy Social Media Use Linked to Mental Illness in Teens
A new study suggests that frequent social media use can take a toll on a young person's psychological well-being. Read more here.
Club membership in teens linked to lower mortality in older age
According to a new study in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, people who participated in clubs as teenagers were...
