Youth Today
Posts By Karen Pittman
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1.1KGuest Opinion EssayBuild Partnerships to Build Success
Effectiveness. Scale. Sustainability. Most nonprofits struggle to achieve these three goals. Few struggle more than youth service providers.
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The Untapped Power of Youth Engagement
We increasingly hear talk these days about youth engagement, a popular youth-development strategy that has been successful in many places – but...
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Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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Want to Prompt Action on Black Male Achievement Gap? Take Out the Word “Black”
“Black males are in crisis.” So begins a new study from the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS), which finds that...
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‘Hope Springs Eternal,’ according to Gallup Poll
It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...
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Wanted: Really Good Teachers
“It’s all about the talent.” This is the conclusion that Education Secretary Arne Duncan and other education reformers have come to...
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Out of the Inbox and Into the Streets
Column time: I reached for the “recent research” inbox and pulled out five studies – three national surveys, two major evaluations...
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They Won’t Stay Outside Forever: Black Young Men and Unemployment
On Saturday, Jan. 30, Washington, D.C., got its second snowstorm in six weeks. Not nearly as big as the first (only...
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Mandatory Free Choice Learning
The Institute for Learning Innovation defines free choice learning as “learning that fulfills the lifelong human quest for knowledge, understanding and...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
One More Time: Don’t Pit Preschoolers Against Teens
States are struggling. Children’s lives, too often, are truly in the balance as states and localities decide where to make cuts, often...
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Taking Risks for Transition-Age Youth
On any given day, scores of young people with limited individual and social capital are simultaneously struggling to exit some systems...
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A ‘Five-Star’ President Who Happens to be Bi-Racial
On Jan. 20, I joined millions of Americans and millions more around the world to watch the inauguration of our 44th...
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Ready for Life: Yes, That Means College
The core belief at the Forum for Youth Investment – that all young people should be “Ready by 21,” meaning ready for...
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Wanted: Youth Work Principles in Schools
Seven students recently joined me for breakfast in a windowless conference room in Des Moines, Iowa, to talk about “the high school...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Precision Engineering
Creating sound bites that are not only memorable but communicate a message is a passion of mine. Every now and then I...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Superintendents of Learning
Superintendents rock! I’ve never started a column like this before, certainly not one about school administrators – the people with whom youth...
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Creativity, Spirituality and Youth Work: Claiming the Territory
Embedded in the pages of the October Youth Today were two pieces that are worth revisiting so that they can be connected....
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Extending Learning: Will We Ever Get It Right?
I had a few hours to read, so I pulled out the folder into which I cram all the things that catch...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Ready = Ready = Ready
The month of May produced yet another study showing that the skills young people need to be ready for life beyond high...
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Time to Consider
In late March, the Rhode Island Foster Parents Association staged call-ins to the legislature to oppose budget cuts for youth services in...
