Youth Today
Opinion
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831Injustice in Connecticut
She sits in solitary confinement 22 or 23 hours a day. She is 16, but has been involved with the system in...
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1.5KSupporting Youth Driven Organizations Does Make a Difference
Supporting youth voices was not as popular in the 1990s as it is today. Systems were afraid of what young adults had...
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1.7KAre We There Yet? Toward More Gender and Culturally Responsive Work with Male Youth
I’d like to correct a misconception that could hold back the much needed movement to empower male youth, and particularly boys and...
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Don’t Forget, Violent Juvenile Crime is Actually in Decline
Alex Hribal allegedly stabbed 22 people, including a security guard, at his high school in a Pittsburgh suburb. He used two large kitchen...
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735Children Deserve Our Honesty and Compassion
Seven years ago, when I was 15, I sat in my parents’ living room creating a Myspace page for my vice principal....
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593Common Core Support in Out-of-School Time: Must We Start Over?
Last week, I sat with 20 other Out-of-School-Time (OST) professionals at the quarterly meeting of the California Afterschool Network’s Leadership Team. Support...
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808Navigating the Future of Juvenile Sentencing After Miller v. Alabama
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth sent out an email this week lauding two recent decisions in the ongoing efforts to...
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1.3KCreating Economic Opportunity for Girls by Taking a Gender Lens to Programs & Policies
SEATTLE — A big round clock is ticking on the screen as Girl Effect, the Nike Foundation’s video sensation, begins to play in...
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Once a Bad Girl, Not Always a Bad Girl
The numbers tell us two sobering facts about girls and juvenile justice. First, they tell us that the percentage of girls in...
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These Kids Are Our Kids
Last weekend I was conducting a workshop on restorative practices and many of the participants were educators, social workers and others who...
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924It’s about Equality: The Case for Investing in Gender-specific Outcomes
Investing in women and girls has become the mantra of the day in corporate and private philanthropy. Even the U.S. State Department...
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537Revisiting the ‘Reform Riot’
The recent election of Bill de Blasio, a self-proclaimed and unabashed progressive, is at once reflecting and generating renewed interest in a...
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524When Reform Fails on the State Level, Turn to Local Advocates
North Carolina is the only state in the U.S. that treats all 16 and 17-year-olds as adults when they are charged with...
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OP-ED: Fear, Race and Bias Inside and Outside the System
I learned to fear black men at a relatively late age. Although I was brought up in south Georgia in a time...
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We Can’t Improve the US by Fishing for Red Herrings
It is a fact that it is not easy being black or Latino in the United States. More specifically, it’s not safe,...
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OP-ED: Restorative Justice Isn’t a Plug and Play Option
A friend of mine has been working for several years to implement restorative practices in his Midwestern community. He has worked with...
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OP-ED: Social Media and the New Landscape of Youth Mentoring
A new report estimates that more than 4 million young people enter formal mentoring programs at some point, double the rates a decade ago....
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OP-ED: One Boy’s Story of Solitary Confinement
For James Burns solitary confinement began when he was six years old. As he writes in a recent ACLU article, “They restrained me,...
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The Kid Brain and the Adult Criminal Justice System
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was 19 when he and his brother, aged 26, allegedly carried out the Boston Marathon Bombing and a slew of...
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1.0KVictim Blaming and the Reality of Sexual Violence
Sexual violence against girls (and women) is an accepted part of American culture, particularly when carried out by privileged males. This is...
