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Reveals National Indicators of the Well-Being of Children<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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    style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>The Federal
    Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has released "America's
    Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010." This
    report continues a series of annual reports to the nation on the well-being
    of children in the United States. The National Center for Education
    Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences, in cooperation with
    21 other federal agencies, contributes indicators to the report and
    supports its production. <br>
    <br>
    According to the report's section on education, eighth graders’ average
    mathematics scale scores increased between 2007 and 2009, as did eighth
    graders’ average reading scale scores. Not all the report's findings were
    positive, however; the proportion of youth aged 16-19 who were neither
    enrolled in school nor working increased from 8 percent to 9 percent
    between 2008 and 2009. <br>
    <br>
    The 2010 Childstats website includes 68 tables and 59 figures that describe
    the population of children and depict their well-being in the areas of
    family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care,
    physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. <br>
    <br>
    You can view, download, and print the report at <a
    href="http://childstats.gov/">http://childstats.gov/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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