Youth Today
Opinion
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3.7KTeaching 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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11.8KFight 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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6.6KChildren 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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2.3KESSA 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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6.1KGay-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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4.1KA 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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Foster 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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3.2KOne 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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3.5KClosing 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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Sleep 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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2.0KShooting 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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7.1KDefeat 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.
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2.6KColumn 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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4.6KTeachers, 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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2.0KQueer 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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2.7K5 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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3.1KOwning 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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3.7KSchool 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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Pennsylvania 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...
