Ambitious Reform Efforts Evaluated in New Book on America's High Schools (Press Release)The Urban InstituteEighteen education policy experts put the past decade's surge in high-school reform efforts to the test in Saving America's High Schools from the Urban Institute Press. Led by coeditors Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, the team of authors size up national reform trends and draw on at least five years of research in Baltimore, New York City, Chicago, Ohio, and North Carolina.
| Publication Date: November 18, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Latinos Are the Least Represented Group of Color in California's Nonprofit Sector (Press Release)The Urban InstituteLatinos, California's largest minority population, are the most underrepresented group of color in the state's nonprofit sector, according to the first systematic study of racial and ethnic diversity in California's nonprofits.
| Publication Date: November 12, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Children of Immigrants: A Statistical Snapshot (Press Release)The Urban InstituteThe number and share of children with at least one immigrant parent, the percentage of children of immigrants who are U.S. citizens, and the share of children of immigrants vs. children with native parents who are poor are just some of the data this snapshot (in English and Spanish) provides.
| Publication Date: October 23, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Policy Polymath Eugene Steuerle Returns to the Urban Institute (Press Release)The Urban InstituteEugene Steuerle, one of the nation's most respected public policy experts, whose portfolio ranges from taxes and federal spending on children to entitlements and the vitality of nonprofits, has rejoined the Urban Institute as an Institute fellow and the Richard B. Fisher
| Publication Date: October 28, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Rising Tide of Foreclosures and Mortage Delinquencies Will Add Turmoil to Metro DC Housing Market and Families' Lives (Press Release)The Urban InstituteThe metropolitan Washington housing market, just beginning to stabilize at midyear, will have to deal soon with tens of thousands of additional foreclosed homes thrown onto the market, an Urban Institute study forecasts.
| Publication Date: October 28, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
City Backs D.C. Public Safety Research Center to Be Housed at the Urban Institute (Press Release)The Urban InstituteA research and information center on crime prevention and public safety in Washington, D.C., is being created at the Urban Institute with an $800,000 grant from the Executive Office of the Mayor.
| Publication Date: September 25, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Nancy La Vigne to Head the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center (Press Release)The Urban InstituteNancy La Vigne, an expert on crime prevention and prisoner reentry and the founding director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety program, will become the director of the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center on October 1.
| Publication Date: September 15, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Transformation of Affordable-Housing Policy Illuminated in New Historical Analysis (Press Release)The Urban InstituteThe Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods from the Urban Institute Press traces the shift in U.S. housing policy from the Washington-led bureaucracies of the 1960s to today's highly collaborative, tax-supported networks of advocates, local governments, bankers, and property developers.
| Publication Date: September 09, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
New Research Explores the Sometimes Rough Road to Adulthood (Press Release)The Urban InstituteLow-income African American youth engage in fewer risky behaviors than low-income white youth, a new Urban Institute analysis of federal data reveals. This research on young blacks is part of a collection of eight brief studies on vulnerable youth, risky behavior, and the transition to adulthood.
| Publication Date: August 27, 2009 | Availability: HTML |
Interactive Website Details the Lives of Children of Immigrants (Press Release)The Urban InstituteThe Children of Immigrants Data Tool enables users to generate detailed charts of the characteristics of children age 0 to 17 nationwide and for individual states and the District of Columbia in 2005 and 2006. Statistics on 21 features include citizenship and the immigrant status (foreign vs. native-born) of children and their parents; children's race, ethnicity, and school enrollment; parents' education and English proficiency; and family composition, income, and work effort. A companion publication, "Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics," highlights key national data and variations across states.
| Publication Date: August 26, 2009 | Availability: HTML |