Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Top Headlines 11/4
Child Welfare Los Angeles County will review old data and look to establish a single data collection entity to track the deaths...
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Mad Men and My Own Tobacco Pledge
I love Mad Men. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up in the time period it takes place, the early...
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Reconnecting Youths Without Diplomas
An avalanche of important attention has been paid to America’s dropout crisis – the reasons for it and how to reverse it....
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No Reform Without Education
The recent defeat at the polls of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty demonstrates an important fact that philanthropists and school reformers have...
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‘Hope Springs Eternal,’ according to Gallup Poll
It is one thing for the poet Alexander Pope to suggest that “hope springs eternal in the human breast.” It is another...
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Can Companies Save the World?
When I consider the role the private sector plays in addressing educational and social service needs in society, I vacillate between whether...
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Secrecy About Abuse Deaths Stirs a Storm
The department that investigates child abuse for Los Angeles County is under attack for allegedly hiding information about children who died under...
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A Fairer Deal for College Students
Sen. Tom Harkin makes the case for reforming for-profit colleges, in an op-ed in The Washington Post. He writes: “Too many of...
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It’s Not a Sprint, It’s a Marathon
In the “good research is a footnote to common sense” department, a new Harvard University study has found that positive developmental experiences...
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Is Differential Too Deferential?
Six months ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that fiscal 2008 statistics showed that child maltreatment in this...
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The Case to Fund the Promise Neighborhoods Experiment
With Congress slashing President Obama’s Promise Neighborhood Initiative, the author of a book about the program on which that initiative is based,...
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What Profession Are We In?
Editor’s Note: Peter Benson, CEO of the Search Institute and an expert on youth development, passed away last month after a year-long...
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Wanted: Really Good Teachers
“It’s all about the talent.” This is the conclusion that Education Secretary Arne Duncan and other education reformers have come to...
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Weekly Notes: Juvenile Court Stats; Profs for JJPDA Reauthorization…and more
NEWS *** The Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice published its Juvenile Court Statistics 2006-2007 online last week, and also released four...
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For-Profit College Reforms Stir Debate
The U.S. Department of Education is proposing new rules to oversee the growing field of for-profit higher education, but it kicked the...
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Bribing Kids: Proceed With Caution
Many moons ago, when my oldest child was about to turn 3 and still stubbornly in diapers, I did something I’d...
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Weekly Notes: Major Luzerne update; New York JJ quandary; and more
***Luzerne Update! A brief filed this week by U.S. attorneys in the case against disgraced judges Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella articulates...
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Whatever Happened to Youth Development?
When something occurs once, it’s a phenomenon; twice, it’s a pattern; three times, a definite trend. Well, three times in as many...
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Out of the Inbox and Into the Streets
Column time: I reached for the “recent research” inbox and pulled out five studies – three national surveys, two major evaluations...
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Let’s Get Uncomfortable
It’s easy to get comfortable in youth work. We know our programs and our kids. We know the other players, the...
