CFK Reports From: Measuring Child Well-being: The Education Flatline?
Event: Release of 2006 Child Well-being Index; panel discussion
Organized By: The Brookings Center on Children and Families; the Foundation for Child Development and Duke University
Where/When: Falk Auditorium – The Brookings Institution, March 28, 2006

Report by: Susan Phillips

From 1975 through 2005, U.S. children made virtually no progress in their educational attainment, at least according to the measures tracked by developers of the Child Well-being Index, or CWI. That "flatline" was the topic of this presentation and panel discussion.

CFK Reports From: Graduate School Lecture Series at Georgetown University
Event: Lecture by Sandra L. Calvert, Professor of Psychology and Director of Children’s Media Center; Georgetown
Organized By: Georgetown University Psychology Department
Where/When: McShain Lounge – Georgetown University, March 23, 2006

Georgetown University psychology professor Sandra Calvert, spoke to an audience of Georgetown students and professors about her work contributing to the Food Marketing to Children and Youth: Threat or Opportunity study, commissioned in 2004 by the U.S. Congress and directed by the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

CFK Reports From: The Future of Children: Childhood Obesity
Event: Forum
Organized By: Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and The Brookings Institution
Where/When: Faulk Auditorium - The Brookings Institution, March 14, 2006

A panel of four policy makers discussed their approaches to the problem of childhood obesity in the U.S., at an event marking the release of the third volume in The Future of Children series on the issue.

CFK reports from: Keeping Kids in the Child Welfare System After 18
Event: A Web conference
Organized by: Chapin Hall Center for Children
Where/When: On the Web, Wednesday, March 1, 2006, 1 pm ET

This one-hour discussion brought together six panelists to discuss the experiences of Illinois with allowing children in the foster care system to choose to remain as wards of the state past the age of 18, up to age 21.

CFK reports from: Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Event: A panel discussion
Organized by: Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Urban Institute
Where/When: Urban Institute, Washington DC, Thursday, February 9, 2006

In the second of a new series of panel discussions on positive youth development models, five panelists discussed the issues facing certain populations of young people as they make the transition to independent living as adults.

CFK reports from: New Perspectives on Choice in K-12 Education
Event: Release of book, Getting Choice Right; panel discussion
Organized by: Brown Center on Education Policy
Where/When: The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, Thursday, January 26, 2006

The authors of three chapters of Getting Choice Right, the final volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education, presented summaries of their research into various aspects of school choice, including charters and vouchers, and answered questions from the audience.

CFK reports from: The New Normal? What Girls Say About Healthy Living
Event: Release of research report; panel discussion
Organized by: Girl Scout Research Institute
Where/When: National Press Club, Washington DC, Wednesday, January 25, 2006

This latest report by the research arm of the Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. takes a look at the attitudes of girls aged 8 to 17 towards healthy living, weight, body image and exercise. It's based on focus group interviews in four communities, an online survey of more than 2,000 girls and their mothers, and a separate survey of 400 African American, Latina and Asian girls.

CFK reports from: Can Positive Youth Development Improve Juvenile Justice?
Event: A panel discussion
Organized by: Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Urban Institute
Where/When: Urban Institute, Washington DC, Thursday, January 19, 2006

Prof. Carol D. Lee of Northwestern University started off by discussing how research perspectives can distort our understanding of black student achievement and competence. Too often, said Lee, black experience is perceived as "a deficit that educators have to overcome."

CFK reports from: Forum, Maximizing Civic and Academic Outcomes: Understanding What Works in Service- Learning
Organized by: The American Youth Policy Forum
Where/When: Washington DC, Friday, November 4th

Researchers, teachers and students discussed how service-learning is being implemented in various schools nationwide. They described positive results such as increasing student test scores and graduation rates in high schools across the country.

CFK reports from: Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century
Event: A book forum and media briefing
Organized by: American Educational Research Association
Where/When: National Press Club, Washington DC, Thursday, October 20, 2005

Prof. Carol D. Lee of Northwestern University started off by discussing how research perspectives can distort our understanding of black student achievement and competence. Too often, said Lee, black experience is perceived as "a deficit that educators have to overcome."