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Is Making Meaning, an elementary school reading comprehension program, effective?

To support an after-school enrichment program for promising, disadvantaged youth in the Bronx and Upper Manhattan.

Stereotypical depictions of immigrant Mexicans focusing on school dropout and academic failure belie Mexican American youths’ varied pathways into adulthood. Why do some immigrant Mexican youth...

This project will create a Project STAR public use data file.

What out-of-school activities and extracurricular activities in school work best for which youth? What factors move youth into and out of activities? What processes link youth activity involvement...

To support the investigative reporting capabilities and annual production of up to 250,000 copies of Youth Today.

To support programs in Brooklyn, New York’s Prospect Park, including the Youth Council leadership development program and the Youth Employment Program.

To support a program that offers kids who already play a musical instrument the opportunity to learn the basics of music composition and how to compose their own works.

To support an after-school arts and leadership training program that serves low-income New York City public school students.

To support a natural resources management internship that helps Bronx teens pursue academic and career opportunities with hands-on outdoor experiences and advanced science study.

To support a program in which young people study the United Nation’s work on children’s rights and participate in discussions about social, economic, religious, and ethnic issues that affect them.

To support an internship program that provides paid, residential, fieldwork opportunities for urban youth interested in conservation.

To support and help expand National Public Radio’s news programming on youth issues.

To support a study that aims to identify how organizations gain the motivation to adopt Youth-Adult Partnerships (Y-AP) in quality ways.

Do non-experimental methods provide a viable alternative to randomized experiments when trying to assess the effects of neighborhood on youth outcomes?

To support a pilot study aimed at informing a larger proposed National Institute of Child Health & Human Development project by collecting middle and high school yearbooks from schools in the...