Juvenile Crime | More After-School Programs Are the Answer to Juvenile Crime

In an average week, 40 children are killed in America by violence. Most of these killings—98 percent, in fact—take place outside of schools. We are paralyzed with shock at the killings in a Littleton, Colo., high school, but do the math and it shows the deaths among youngsters that don’t make the headlines add up to more than 150 Littletons a year.

In the last few months of 1999, there’s been the usual hand wringing over school violence and the requisite White House conference. But at summer’s midpoint, when policies and programs affecting schools should be moving into...

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