Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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4.1KResistance to Restorative Justice: Understanding, Working Through Staff Skepticism
When you are trying to make the shift to a restorative justice mindset, having even a few teachers, support personnel or administrators...
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3.5KWe Must Change the Narrative About College With Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care
While many high school seniors receive acceptance letters from colleges across the country this spring, young people who have experienced foster care...
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3.6KMBK Rising! Inspires Young People of Color to Be More Effective Leaders
When I arrived in Oakland, Calif., to attend the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising! convening in February, I was one of many community...
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2.6KSummer Learning Should Be Nothing Like School: Use Thematic Curriculum
In light of high-stakes testing, children spend much of their in-school time listening to the teacher instruct whole group lessons and then...
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4.1KGun Control Movement Experiencing Growing Pains
With the advent of March For Our Lives and the success of pro-gun control candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, today’s gun...
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6.4KHomeless LGBT Youth: How We Can Fight Their Invisibility, Including Youth of Color
Youth homelessness is a pervasive problem throughout the United States, and its rate has steadily risen over the years. According to the...
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3.6KRight Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College
Having relationships with resourceful, knowledgeable individuals is important for the college success of young people with foster care histories. Put more simply,...
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1.7KRestorative Justice Can Give Kids the Power of Choice
“I’m too busy to volunteer,” I mumble to myself, and I know I’ve given the stink-eye to those perpetually busy do-gooder women...
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4.0KHomeless Youth Don’t Realize How Much Legal Aid Can Help Them
Civil legal aid services are a necessary tool in preventing and eliminating youth homelessness. Though most young people do not initially identify...
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1.8KLouisville After-school Programs Get Support From Our Network
Philanthropic organizations and local government have been supporting nonprofit organizations that serve young people in my community for decades. We have dozens...
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3.6KWe Students Will Keep Advocating for Background Checks for Gun Sales
In this past year as a student activist for gun safety, I’ve learned that America’s gun problem is a multifaceted issue. Gun...
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3.5KForget Disarming ‘Bad Guys,’ We Must Make All Guns Harder To Get
Six days. That’s how long it took lawmakers in New Zealand to ban military-style assault weapons following an attack in Christchurch that...
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4.3KWhen Children Grieve: 10 Important Points for Youth Welfare Professionals
As youth welfare professionals we have all heard it, “I need to protect my children and not talk with them about their...
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2.2KFrom Restorative Justice Skeptic to Advocate in 2 Weeks
Walking back into my middle school classroom after being out the previous day at a training, I first noticed that the colorful...
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4.6KBoth Trump, U.S. Child Welfare Play the Bonding Card From Bottom of Deck
Last November, I wrote a column for Youth Today about the alarming similarities between the Trump administration policy of tearing apart families...
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2.9KResearch Into Police Probes Is Crucial, Ignored Part of Gun Violence Prevention
I began my research program on gun violence prevention in the early 1970s, when my children were just starting school. Now I...
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5.1KHow to Help Youth Activists Change the World
I love working with kids and supporting the people who work with kids. If you are reading this, you probably do too....
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3.5KExperiential Learning: How to Teach the 3 Skills Students Will Need for Their Dream Careers — on a Budget
Instead of teaching students the content we think they should know, what if students chose the content based on their passions and...
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1.4KBoost Education for Youth in Solitary With More Books, Workbooks, Graphic Novels, Audiobooks
Advocates often urge the dismantling of the school-to-prison pipeline. But for many of our youth, prisons are already their schools. In 1954,...
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3.3KAfter-school Programs Too Important, Needed to Be Endangered by Budget Cuts
With the release of President Donald Trump’s budget, summer program and after-school advocates around the country are again gearing up to rally...
