Youth Today
Opinion
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615One Mom Asks How Much Sports Is Too Much?
From the Reporters Inc.: A couple of months ago I overheard a conversation between some relatives about a friend whose daughter had...
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830A Letter to the Principal
To reach the optimal outcomes for all the children on campus, our work can be magnified exponentially if we work together and...
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1.5KLiteracy and Service Learning
New Settlement Apartments’ Bronx Helpers program is an academic enrichment, leadership and community service program for middle and high school youth with...
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1.6KIntegrating Literacy into the Arts
The Coalition for Hispanic Family Services Arts and Literacy After School and Summer Program builds literacy in the widest sense through visual...
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1.3KRegional Realities: Girls Not Choosing Careers of the Future
Girls are leaving opportunities on the table, entering the workforce in lower-paying, lower-status professions that don’t reflect the careers of the future.
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1.8KCan We Talk? The Importance of Conversation at Youth Programs
By practicing conversing with "expert" conversationalists, children quickly learn the pragmatic, or useful, aspects of oral language.
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766Can Reform Efforts Strengthen Justice System?
Because we work from the desire to create more just and less alienating ways of interacting, we often find ourselves worrying about...
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Even Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect — And That’s OK
It is often uncomfortable to be viewed as an “expert,” especially when you know more than anyone that you don’t have specific...
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No ‘Normal’ Response by Black People Possible to Continued White Supremacy
When you live in an abnormal situation, one that fundamentally is not suited to humans beings, there is no possibility of a...
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Eric Holder Was a Bold Advocate for Change
Eric Holder, the first African-American attorney general, resigned on Thursday, though he’ll remain at his post until his replacement is confirmed.
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1.5KThe Solitary Confinement of Youth
Studies have found that subjecting prisoners to solitary confinement makes it more difficult for them to assimilate back into their communities, increasing...
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2.4KThe Impacts of Truancy
Dropping out of school is not a singular event. It is a slow process of disengagement that requires us to look at...
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940How Do You Keep Your People ‘Juicy?’
As a funder put it so well, “as youth workers, we can tend to dry up over the years, and then some...
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For Real Juvenile Justice Reform We Must Look at the Data Objectively
We don’t always understand the world as well as we imagine, especially when it comes to the effects of public policy. This...
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1.4KAn Important Life Lesson: The Silver Lining of Afterschool Funding Fights
New York City’s cyclical fights over funding for afterschool programs in the last few years were hard-fought and painful, but there was...
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1.1K‘Expanded Learning’ a Dangerous Euphemism
A government-fueled fear of inadequacy is turning intelligence into a global competition, funded in a way that threatens to drive youth-centered philosophies...
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Plenty of Blame for Turmoil at a Tennessee Lockup
The recent turmoil at Tennessee’s Woodland Hills juvenile facility in Nashville provides an example of an institution unable to meet the demands...
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791Finding Common Ground Between Afterschool Practitioners and Funders
It was with great anticipation that I read the “Grantmakers and Thought Leaders on Out-Of-School Time (OST) Survey and Interview Report,” commissioned...
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We Need the Legalization of Being Black
I have sometimes imagined that because of my time in prison I can understand what it is like to be black in...
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1.5KMoving Sex Education from the Classroom to the Community
My peers and I did not get any sex education with one exception. A hygiene class. It was such a foreign experience,...
