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Neighborhood Safety About 3 out of every 10 non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children under age 18 live in neighborhoods that are never or sometimes safe, compared to less than 1 in 10 white children (8 percent), according to parent reports...> View Indicator Victims of Hate Speech Hate speech directed at teens declined slightly between 1999 and 2005, from 13 percent to 11 percent...> View Indicator After-School Activities Between 2001 and 2005, the percentage of students participating in clubs, community service, and sports increased. In 2005, sports had the highest participation rate for after-school activities, with 31 percent of kindergarten through eighth grade students participating...> View Indicator School Communication in Parents' Native Language Among children in kindergarten through grade three whose parents spoke a language other than English, those living in households at or below the poverty line were much more likely than their wealthier peers to attend schools that both provided interpreters for parent-teacher conferences and other school meetings and translated memos and newsletters into parents' native language (81 percent versus 49 percent, respectively, in 2003). Overall, 64 percent of such children attended schools that provided both these services...> View Indicator Individualized Education Plans Boys are more than twice as likely as girls to receive special services through an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In 2003, 9 percent of boys in kindergarten through grade 3 had an IEP compared with 4 percent of girls in the same grades...> View Indicator Youth Voting The percentage of youth ages 18 to 24 who reported voting and registering to vote was higher in the 2004 presidential election year than in 1996 or 2000 (42 percent reported voting in 2004, compared with 32 percent in both 1996 and 2000)... > View Indicator Religious Services Attendance Eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students who plan to complete four years of college were more likely than others to attend religious services at least once per week in 2006... > View Indicator Religiosity Black students in tenth and twelfth grades are almost twice as likely as white students to report that religion plays a very important role in their lives. For example, in 2006, 53 percent of black twelfth graders reported that religion played a very important role in their lives, compared with 25 percent of their white peers... > View Indicator Volunteering Students who plan to complete four years of college are significantly more likely to participate in volunteer activities at least once a month than are their peers who do not plan to complete college, a discrepancy that increases with age> View Indicator Parental Involvement in Schools The percentage of students whose parents reported involvement in their schools rose significantly between 1999 and 2003 across several measures, including attendance at a general meeting, a meeting with a teacher, or a school event, and volunteering or serving on a committee...> View Indicator Participation in School Athletics Since 1991, the gender gap in school sports participation has declined among eighth, tenth and twelfth grade students. For example, for twelfth graders, the gender gap shrank from 18 percentage points in 1991 to nine percentage points in 2006...> View Indicator Participation in School Music or Other Performing Arts Youth whose parents are more educated are more likely to participate in school arts activities.> View Indicator Youth Who Feel Unsafe at School The percentage of youth who feared attack at school or on the way to and from school decreased substantially from 12 percent in 1995 to 6 percent in 2005... > View Indicator
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