Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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1.9KColumn Was Based on Incorrect Pennsylvania Statistics About Child Abuse Investigations
Recently Youth Today published a column (“Pennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations”) by Richard Wexler...
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3.9KTeachers, Be Understanding With Your Students Who May Be Homeless
Sixth grade can be a tough time for pretty much anybody. It doesn’t help when your parents divorce right before the beginning...
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1.7KQueer Youth Must Get Sexual Health Care While Incarcerated
As “bathroom bills,” military transgender bans and elimination of protections for LGBTQ federal employees demonstrate, we are a long way from a...
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2.1K5 Things You Should Know About DACA Youth, the Trump Administration and Congress
A little over a month ago, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Since...
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2.5KOwning His Learning and His Future: Taliq Tillman’s Student-Owned Learning Experience
I met Arthur 10 years ago at a principals’ convening. That night, Arthur and I talked about how to make students’ learning...
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2.9KSchool Relationships Helped Me Harness Power of Perseverance to Learn English, Use My Voice
I came to the United States two years ago, absolutely terrified of speaking in English. I was depressed because I had left...
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1.8KPennsylvania County Has Wildly High Rate of Needless Child Abuse Investigations
It is child welfare’s equivalent of stop-and-frisk. It happens over and over again, it’s traumatic, it’s usually baseless...
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2.0KWhat We Tried, What We Learned About Project Based Learning in Denver
For the past year, 13 after-school sites within Denver have been working to implement quality programming...
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3.3KA Thousand Cries For Help That Go Unanswered
My life seemed like something right out of a horror flick — and my mother — well, she could have won an...
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1.7KEx-foster Kids Must Stay Strong to Help Those Still in Care
Let me introduce myself, not as Dr. Dorsett, Ph.D., the researcher with professional wisdom to share, but as...
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How to Redefine Structured After-school Activities So Kids Will Be Engaged
Too often in out-of-school time programs, students are assigned to groups they can never leave, forced to do an activity...
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2.0KWhy Neuroscience, Positive Feedback Are Transformative in Youth Work
I am a long-time advocate for how the power of neuroscience can transform the youth-serving profession. When...
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1.8KYouth-Serving Leaders Really Need the Value Add of Good Coaching
In the early fall, I will complete my 11th year at Jobs for the Future and my 46th year working in the...
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1.5KTV Could Show How Immigrants Not Forgiven Juvenile Mistakes
Although there is a large and vast discussion throughout the United States around immigration, there is a subset of the population that...
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1.7KStudent-centered Learning Reflects Science of Learning for All Youth
My 6-year-old is obsessed with baseball stadiums. All summer his attention was captured by stadium history...
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Abuse in Foster Care: Research vs. the Child Welfare System’s Alternative Facts
Suppose, hypothetically, you could gather in one room 333 former foster children. Now, suppose you asked how many of them had been...
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1.8KNavigating the Path to a Successful Career: Providing Support for Trauma-Exposed Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
Youth placed in juvenile justice institutions face a fundamental obstacle in their career pathway: They have...
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Being a ‘Good Person’ Won’t Undo Your Implicit Biases
To become a champion of racial equity and social justice takes more effort than one might think. As a culture, we laud...
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1.6KAdding Youth Voices to Youth Workforce Strategies — Let Their Experiences Guide Us
In Baltimore, more than 20 percent of young people ages 16 to 24 are neither in school or working — one of...
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3.2KA Case for Collecting Adverse Childhood Experiences Data
Let me start with a radical statement: I love data. One of my favorite activities in my role as chief strategy officer...
