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This organization provides training and technical assistance to existing and developing mentoring programs to improve and build mentoring relationships for children, at risk youth and adults in Virginia.
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Few people realize the impact that high school dropouts have on a community’s economic, social, and civic health. Business owners and residents—in particular, those without school-aged children—may not be aware that they have much at stake in the success of their local high schools. Indeed, everyone—from car dealers and realtors to bank managers and local business owners—benefits when more students graduate from high school.
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In order to better understand the issues of efficacy and fairness in the use of out-of-school suspension, we first must answer two questions: How frequently is suspension being used in our schools? Are there significant differences in the frequency of suspension when we look at subgroups of children by race/ethnicity and gender? This report is designed to help answer these questions.
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A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools.
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The College Board's Commission on Access, Admissions, and Success in Higher Education reports on the state of US higher education, and provides recommendations for increasing college completion as well as how to measure the success of policy changes. The report includes national and state-by-state data and comparisons.
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This Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program report was published to provide information on the transformation large metropolitan areas underwent in the last decade. It can also serve as a preview for the 2010 United States Census. The report contains statistics about population and migration, race and ethnicity, immigration, age, households and families, education attainment, work, income and poverty, commuting and more.
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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation designed a program called 'Reclaiming Futures' aimed at improving the outcome for drug involved youth. The Urban Institute evaluated the program through this report, and added ideas as to how to improve the program for the future.
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A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It provides the most current detailed statistical information to inform the Nation on the nature of crime in schools. This report presents data on crime at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population from an array of sources--the National Crime Victimization Survey, the School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the School Survey on Crime and Safety and the School and Staffing Survey. Data on crime away from school are also presented to place school crime in the context of crime in the larger society.
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Community-based mapping and data solutions for education, environment, housing, and poverty-related issues.