Six in 10 African-American youth believe “it is hard for young black people to get ahead because they face so much discrimination,”...
Sometimes, I’m just slow. I carried around the results of two work force surveys in my head for weeks before I realized...
The buzz about improving the high school graduation rate is becoming a roar. Governors’ children’s cabinets are picking this as the leading...
Bear with me. I’m trying to make sense of a series of writings spread before me that speak to how race, class...
Accomplishment. Beauty. Community. Creation. Duty. Those are five of the 15 “meanings” identified in a hot new business book about the bottom-line...
By Karen Pittman I thought nothing could be more sobering than the photos and stories that continue to pour forth from...
September is back-to-school month. And for the first time in the nation’s history, many communities are beginning to get an accurate sense...
More than 15 years ago, I began using a twist on an old saying as a way to get discussions started about...
In recent weeks, children and youth advocates from across the country have joined forces with anti-poverty activists to oppose President Bush’s proposed...
Google Alerts is a wonderful, free, personalized online clipping service. At the top of my clips for the New Year was this...
My computer’s spell-check function automatically changes “underserved” to “undeserved.” I learned this the hard way, when I had to send a publication...
The Washington Post, Sept. 30: Mayor Anthony Williams gleefully announces that Washington has won the competition to be the new home of...
The July/August issue of Youth Today featured not one, but two lengthy stories on evaluation. The first, sharing the front page...
The truth hurts sometimes, but it shouldn’t hurt the truth tellers. At least that’s what we’ve been led to believe. Not so...
Seventy thousand. That is roughly the number of words I have written for this column over the past 10 years. It seems...
Consider this: In 2001, more young people declared bankruptcy than graduated from college. College administrators speculate that bad debt, not bad...
I was two years old when the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision came down in 1954. My public education...
“Less sex, more contraception.” That’s the story behind the continued drop in teenage pregnancy rates. According to the latest data, teen pregnancy...
The lead story in last month’s Youth Today was about the new report from the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth...
David Weikart, founder and president emeritus of High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, died on Dec. 9. Through the magic of cell phones, I...