The first time I visited Portland, Ore., some 12 years ago, I knew it was a cutting-edge kind of place. On the...
I have just finished reading a new book about young people that should be required reading for youth workers, teachers and, most...
As youth work practitioners, most of us have long believed that effective programs depend in large measure on the availability of competent,...
When I enrolled in a graduate school of social work many years ago, I found myself to be a distinct outsider –...
Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...
Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...
Many of the young people that youth agencies serve are about to lose a lot of what they’ve spent the past nine...
Despite several glaring problems, the recent Mathematica Policy Research study reporting first-year findings from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program contains...
Here’s a story from the friendly skies. One day last summer, on a flight from Atlanta to New York, I came across...
I remember those halcyon days when I didn’t have to worry about where money came from. I started my youth work career...
Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...
Many years ago I attended a dinner party at which the conversation turned to the question, “Has a book ever changed your...