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New Future of Children blog New entries on Stimulus Package Spending on Teachers, Parenting & Video Games, and Best Practices in Juvenile Justice

Future of Children Senior Editor, Christina Paxson, appointed Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

New Future of Children Products! Future of Children Highlights: Best Practices in Juvenile Justice Reform: A Summary and Children and Electronic Media.

Now Available: America's High Schools, edited by Cecilia Elena Rouse and James J. Kemple. This volume is accompanied by a Policy Brief, Executive Summary, and chapter summaries.

Future of Children Ranked #1 by ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Report in the areas of Family Studies, Health Policy and Services, and Social Sciences.

Foc Authors of the upcoming volume on Preventing Abuse and Neglect testified before the House Ways and Means Committee about home visiting programs.

Deborah Daro
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

FOC Advisory Board Member Marguerite Kondracke testified on Capitol Hill on the high school drop out crisis, and quoted FOC's research on the racial gap on school readiness.

America's High Schools Brookings Institution, was held on May 14, 2009. For more information, click here.

Free Event: Reforming High Schools: Tools to Help Promote Change Practitioners Conference was held on April 24, 2009, Princeton University. For more information click here.

The Future of Children now has webcasts featuring summaries of the research found in many of our volumes and policy briefs.
Click here for these half hour presentations on Poverty, Marriage, Social Mobility, Childhood Obesity and School Readiness.

PointSmart.ClickSafe. Online Safety Summit. Click here for highlights and complete video coverage of this day-long summit on children and the internet.

Students and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age. Click here to watch presentations from our conference on media and the classroom. Segments include electronic media research; innovative uses of technology in the classroom; and professional development programs.

"Preventing Abuse and Neglect" (Vol. 19, No. 2) to be published fall 2009.

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