Youth Today
Opinion
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1.4KThe 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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931How 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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1.1KFor 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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773Finding 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,...
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Can Young Offenders Be Rehabilitated?
Are there those for whom redemption is impossible? I have known a lot of men who committed terrible deeds, and it seemed...
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1.3KThe Door to Hell and Creating Interest, Not Just for Students
If you want to find the doorway to Hell, it’s a flaming pit in the desert of Turkmenistan leaking methane that was...
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Is It True America is Not for Black People?
Michael Brown was killed because he was black. He was killed because the police in his community, like those in many other...
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647Robo-Readers Aren’t as Good as Human Readers — They’re Better
In April of 2012, Mark D. Shermis, then the dean of the College of Education at the University of Akron, made a...
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Country Music Television Turns a Blind Eye to Irresponsible Programming
There’s a new summer television show we hope no one is watching. Country Music Television’s new reality television series, “My Dysfunctional Family,”...
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2.4KHonesty and the Facilitator’s Role in Afterschool Sex Education
Sex education these days looks very different than when I was in high school in the late '90s — and largely for...
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1.1KJuvenile Justice and Education Partnerships: Change Must Begin Now
In spite of 10 years of work, education and juvenile justice are still not being seen as an equal partners in jurisdictions...
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We Must Stop Accepting Violence in Prisons
In the U.S. we usually consider prisons and jails to be violent places, as if there were no alternative, but the conditions...
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Political concerns trump child welfare in Connecticut
More than three months after sending an unconvicted transgender minor to an adult prison, Connecticut child welfare officials seem more concerned about...
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Lock-Up Must Not Translate into a Death Sentence for Kids
For youth in detention (including post detention) the rate of completed suicide is two to four times higher, surpassing the rate of...
