Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Librarians Are Youth Workers; Get to Know One
They fight for teens’ rights. They create havens for marginalized youth. They help youths learn to express themselves through writing. That...
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They Won’t Stay Outside Forever: Black Young Men and Unemployment
On Saturday, Jan. 30, Washington, D.C., got its second snowstorm in six weeks. Not nearly as big as the first (only...
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Time to Pay for Hazardous Youth Work
William Harvey Jr., a youth outreach worker for the city of Boston, was recently honored by the city and his union....
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Congratulations on Your Engagement
A recent study entitled A Report on the 2007 and 2008 High School Survey of Student Engagement provides some distressing news about...
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Fix the Adoption Act
By Lynne Miller As a parent advocate at a foster care agency, I worked with parents to help them reunify with...
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OJJDP @ 35: Recollections
[See related article, OJJDP Leaders Talk Money, Politics and Advocacy; watch videos from the forum at http://www.youthtodayexchange.org] John Rector1977-1979Appointed by Jimmy Carter The...
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Mandatory Free Choice Learning
The Institute for Learning Innovation defines free choice learning as “learning that fulfills the lifelong human quest for knowledge, understanding and...
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Promise Neighborhoods: An Optimist’s View
Rick Cohen’s article, “Obama’s Zone Offense” (November), is appropriately cautious about the ability of the Promise Neighborhoods to “replicate” the Harlem...
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Weekly Notes: PROMISE Act on the move; Juvenile sex offender stats; Funds for reentry work; and more
***The Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support and Education (Youth PROMISE) Act was passed out of the House Judiciary Committee...
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Weekly Notes: Guide to Good Reads on LWOP; OJJDP@35 Event; Robinson Confirmed; and more
As we have mentioned before, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases next week that could very well limit the universe...
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Summer Bridge Programs: Creating Opportunities for Low-Income Youth
These are among the worst of times for low-income youth, particularly males and youth of color. In the midst of a deep...
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Columbine’s Long-Term Harm: the Bully Pulpit
Like 9/11, Columbine was an event that “changed everything.” It challenged our belief that kids, for all their quirks, would always...
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The Six Essential Questions
If there is one idea that dominates the youth work and positive youth development fields, it is that every kid needs...
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American Legacy and the “truth”: Your Letters
We are concerned by the inaccuracies and innuendo in your series of articles, “The Truth About American Legacy” [October]. • The...
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One More Time: Don’t Pit Preschoolers Against Teens
States are struggling. Children’s lives, too often, are truly in the balance as states and localities decide where to make cuts, often...
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Give, Get or Get Off Youth Program Boards
I have often heard it politely put that board members for youth-serving agencies give of their “time, talent and treasures.” In...
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Where Is the Youth Czar?
First there was the drug czar, followed quickly by the auto czar, the climate czar, the health czar, the urban czar...
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The Gates Incident: What It Means for Youth and Cops
By Jeff Fleischer Years ago, in an open letter to his daughters, Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote that he wanted to...
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When Asking, “Why Me?” Means Disorderly Conduct
By Lisa H. Thurau The altercation here this summer between Professor Henry Gates and Officer Joseph Crowley raises important questions about what...
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Minding Our Peas and Cukes
Several years ago, when foundations and policymakers discovered the obesity crisis in our country – seemingly overnight – I thought we...
