Youth Today
Posts By mbloom
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2.5KOpinionThe Remix with Karen Pittman: Student Success + Youth Success = Field Success
I'm encouraged by recent signs that the Biden administration understands the importance of community-based organizations to the allied youth fields.
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4.4KNewsPandemic pushes afterschool programs to add social-emotional learning
Afterschool programs across the country are increasing turning to social emotional learning, or SEL, and other approaches to help cope with increased...
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5.3KNewsDo online adoption “heart galleries” do more harm than good?
Two decades ago, it was common practice for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption to advertise the faces of foster youth seeking...
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4.6KNewsNew online-only SAT puts students with disabilities at new disadvantage, advocates say
Some young people who are neurodivergent or have learning disabilities, already concerned about what they say are structural biases in the existing...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Adolescents are a force for good
Adolescents are a force for good is one of the UCLA’s Center for the Developing Adolescent six principles of adolescent development. The...
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3.4KNewsAfter a win for U.S. climate change education, classroom implementation is off to a slow start
Many teachers have little or no formal training about climate change, much less about how to teach it, and what students learn...
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2.9KNewsNew federal immigration policy offers easier path to legal residency for some young migrants
New federal policies that took effect last month now offer some immigrant children protection from deportation and an easier path to legal...
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2.7KNewsiPad rentals, emergency funds and food pantries: What it takes to make “free college” work for all students
Since moving to New Mexico from her home country of Malaysia in 2017, Nuraisyah A Mohd Hilmi has paused her college education...
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2.7KOpinionDepartment of Education, act now to empower youth experiencing homelessness
Throughout my final years of high school and college, I was homeless and on my own, without a parent or guardian to...
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3.6KOpinionHow podcasters are helping youth who stutter feel less alone
Maya Chupkov, a woman who stutters, produces and hosts "Proud Stutter," a podcast about shifting the narrative around stuttering. She shares some...
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The Remix with Karen Pittman: Policies that erase Black, brown or LGBTQ youth are a crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken its toll on teens, accelerating the declines in youth mental health that were evident before the pandemic....
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2.7KNewsThese Tulsa high school students are part of the nation’s cyber-defense plan
In a classroom at Will Rogers High School, across the street from the University of Tulsa’s campus, 16-year old Bernardo Bustos is...
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3.0KNewsHow teaching city kids to farm paid off for this Texas community
An Austin nonprofit with farms on two plots of land working with young people to grow fruits and vegetables increased its production...
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7.6KOpinionIn child welfare, if the solution is money, the problem is poverty
In the beginning, the builders of what would become a system of massive intrusion into families, and, ultimately, the separation of millions...
