Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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6.6KMy ESL Journey: For Every Dark Night, There’s a Brighter Day
When I was 8 years old, my mom decided it was best for our family to move to this country: her, my...
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1.4KHow Not to Lose Your Mind Over Every New Trend in Your Field
It sometimes feels like risking whiplash to try to follow all the emerging trends in our field and the potential funding, resources...
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2.1K‘I’m Not a Racist’: The Case for Inclusion and Diversity in Hip‑hop
Many fans of hip-hop have commented on Joyner Lucas’ remix of Lil Pump’s hit record, “Gucci Gang.” There is also a considerable...
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5.3KFoster Care: How a California Politician Bent an Entire Child Welfare System to His Will
Meet Matt Rexroad. He is an ex-Marine who describes himself as “an influential part of California politics for more than 25 years.”...
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1.8KLatina Girls in Our Juvenile Justice Prevention Programs Get Empowering, Effective Support
In our Family Keys program, a prevention program that served close to 40 percent Latina youth in 2016, there is a strong...
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1.7KStaggering New Numbers on Youth Homelessness Demand Action
Every year, more than 4 million young people experience homelessness in the United States. And while youth homelessness is a largely hidden...
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2.6KHow to Build the High-Quality Partnerships Schools Need to Survive Well
Helen Keller said it best, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
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3.2KTeaching Positive Peer Pressure Empowers Atlanta Students to Be Change Agents
Today’s youth have a lot to say, and they know more than we give them credit for, I have found. Youth have...
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9.5KFight Burnout and Compassion Fatigue With Lots of Self-care Ideas
For years I have sought out with fierce determination conversations, books and articles such as this. Articles with titles like “5 Steps...
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5.9KChildren Suffer When a Parent Is Deported, Whether the Children Stay or Go
Between 2003 and 2013, an estimated 740,000 to 920,000 parents of children who are U.S. citizens were deported from the United States....
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1.8KESSA Funds Must Be Used Wisely to Amplify Crucial Summer Learning
Education is not one size fits all. Nor does it stop when the traditional academic year ends. Each student has different needs,...
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5.1KGay-Straight Alliances in Rural High Schools Important But Still Controversial
People who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and others of minority sexual orientations and gender...
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3.5KA Case Study in Misleading Legislators, Everyone Else About Child Welfare & Opioids
Want to see how to pull the wool over the eyes of state lawmakers? Check out the testimony at a legislative hearing...
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2.5KFoster Care Professionals Need to Value, Be Sensitive to Youth’s Spirituality
It has been said that what does not break you will make you stronger. Spirituality appears to be the mechanism...
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2.6KOne Family, Five Stories of Anytime, Anywhere Learning
So far on our journey through Jobs for the Future’s student-centered learning framework, you have met...
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2.6KClosing the Communication Gap Between School‑day and After‑school Teams
As a 23-year-old after-school worker in Brooklyn, New York, my “teacher” role was deeply intertwined with the...
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3.7KSleep Deprivation May Hurt Low-income Youth of Color More, With Myriad Effects
Today we know that short sleep durations and sleepless nights have reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The Centers for Disease...
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Massachusetts Ruling Offers Rare Insight Into How Child Welfare Agency Really Works
In a previous column, I wrote about the federal law requiring states to make “reasonable efforts” to keep families together...
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1.7KShooting for the Moon, Taking My Place Among the Stars
Anyone who truly knows me knows I'm not a very emotional person. They'll know I don't like expressing how I feel or...
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6.4KDefeat Vicarious Trauma With These 4 Crucial Tips for Self-care for CAC Staff
If you regularly work with traumatized children and youth, you will experience vicarious trauma. Full stop.
