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JCCF NEWS SUMMARY
March 13, 2012

 
Enter the 18th annual Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism competition, which recognizes exemplary reporting on children and families. 

 

First-place winners receive $1,000 and will be honored at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. 

 

Casey Medalists will also be considered for the America's Promise Journalism Awards for Awareness and Action, and the new Grad Nation Award for excellence in education reporting. Alliance winners receive $5,000 and will be announced at the Medals ceremony.  

 

Nearly 5,000 journalists have competed for Casey Medals since 1994. You can find the medalists and their winning content by clicking on the Awards tab on the JCCF homepage.

 

 

Video Highlights from the 2011 Casey Medals: 

2011 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism Ceremony
 Video by Rebecca Taranto, Merrill College Student

 

 
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The Lives of Juvenile Lifers
 Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story, Courtesy of ITVS
 
The Lives of Juvenile Lifers: Findings from a National Survey
 
The Sentencing Project investigates the experiences of people serving life without parole sentences for crimes committed before their 18th birthday.
 
The report presents the first-ever national survey of this population and finds juvenile lifers experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantages, educational challenges and abuse. The authors also expose extreme and troubling racial disparities in juvenile life without parole sentences and conclude with recommendations for reform.
 
 
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story
 
This powerful ITVS documentary follows Cyntoia Brown, a young woman currently serving a life sentence for a murder she committed at age 16. Filmed over the course of 6 years, the filmmakers delve into Cyntoia's troubled past.
 
Me Facing Life: Cyntoia's Story is available through March as a part of the Women and Girls Lead Online Film Festival. 
 

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 Photo by 2009 Casey Runner-Up Kathleen Galligan, Detroit Free Press

 

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headlinesCHILDREN AND FAMILIES HEADLINES

 

The Wall Street Journal, Shirley S. Wang | March 13, 2012
Anthropologists at the University of California, Los Angeles are studying families at home in an effort to grasp how families with two working parents balance child care, household duties and career.
 
Khan Academy: The Future of Education?

CBS News 60 Minutes, Sanjay Gupta | March 11, 2012

Backed by Bill Gates and Google, Khan Academy aims to offer a free, online and world-class education to anyone, anywhere.

 

Advocates Push for Foster Children to be Appointed Lawyers to Get them out of System Faster

Associated Press | March 11, 2012

A children's rights group says too many foster youth go to court without an attorney to assist and represent them.

 

For Middle Class Hispanics, Preschool Not an Option

New America Media/Enlace, Irasema Mayoral | March 10, 2012

Children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Head Start and other free and subsidized preschool programs have academic deficits going into kindergarten.

 

Questions Grow Over Race Discipline Report

NPR, Tell Me More, Michel Martin | March 9, 2012

A civil rights official with the Department of Education says the new data about disproportionate suspensions for students of color is an "opportunity gap tool" for local school districts.

 

USA Today, Wendy Koch | March 8, 2012

Nearly 1 in 4 high school seniors and 1 in 3 people under age 26 smoke. The tobacco industry's marketing fuels their addiction, says the first U.S. surgeon general's report of youth tobacco use since 1994.

 

Homeless Youth: The Next Battle for Gay Equality

Associated Press, Verena Dobnik | March 8, 2012

LGBT young people represent a dramatically high proportion of an estimated 600,000 homeless youths across the country - between 20 and 40 percent. The escalating problem has caught the attention of the White House.

 
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Events
EVENTS      
 
Building a Grad Nation Summit 
March 18 - 21
America's Promise Alliance
Washington, D.C.
The Grad Nation campaign is a 10-year effort to end the high school dropout crisis. The summit brings together educators, local and state leaders, national nonprofit organizations, businesses, youth and others to share progress and catalyze action.
 
March 20, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. ET
U.S. Department of Education
Online
Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Education Jacqueline Jones leads this webinar on early literacy for young children, including English Learners. 
 
March 21, 8:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
The Center for New York City Affairs
New York
Youth violence has declined sharply over the past two decades, but tension remains high between law enforcement officials and young people in some New York neighborhoods. A panel discusses strategies for combating youth violence and improving relationships between law enforcement officials and community members.  
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ABOUT THE JCCF NEWS SUMMARY

Mina Dixon, Editor 


The Journalism Center on Children & Families, a program of the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, is a national nonprofit organization committed to supporting media coverage of children, youth and families, particularly the disadvantaged. The JCCF News Summary helps journalists and others keep in touch with the latest news, policy analysis and research reports on critical social issues that impact families and communities. We encourage redistribution of this material with credit given to the Journalism Center on Children & Families.

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