Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Make College Pay for Youth Workers
In response to the cover story in February [“Local Schools Give Youth Workers More Class”]: You noted that youth workers who enroll...
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After-School Data Old, Discredited
Your readers would have been well-served if your brief article on the RAND Corp.’s recent paper on afterschool programs (“Current-Generation Youth Programs:...
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Judges’ Council Above Reproach
As president of the National Juvenile Court Services Association, I am concerned by recent press reports regarding the operations of the National...
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Competence is Cool
Interest in after-school programs for high schoolers is growing around the country, and in many quarters. Several recent national conferences have focused...
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Precision Engineering
Creating sound bites that are not only memorable but communicate a message is a passion of mine. Every now and then I...
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A New Low in Official Betrayal
Admit it: Most of us in the youth field owe our jobs to appalling government and institutional dereliction. The abject failure of...
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Building the Case for Entrepreneur Ed
A group of educators, advocates and donors has been meeting under the auspices of the Youth Entrepreneurship Strategy Group (YESG) to ponder...
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Federal Child Welfare Test Fails Children
Last year, I had my first experience with the federal Child and Family Services Review (CFSR), which many people in child welfare...
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Youth Development and the Common Good
Nothing rankles me more than poverty and our American tradition of ignoring it. For kids, poverty is the ultimate risk factor. While...
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Superintendents of Learning
Superintendents rock! I’ve never started a column like this before, certainly not one about school administrators – the people with whom youth...
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The Power of Babble
“All evidence suggests that narcissism is more common in recent generations,” San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge declares in her popular,...
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Let’s Stress the Fun in Fundamental
Everyone knows that reading is fundamental; we even have a national organization by that name. Yet a recent report from the National...
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Shortage of Latino Leaders, Too
On the West Coast, we feel left out of the singular focus on the dearth of blacks in nonprofit leadership. [See “Wanted,...
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Hack at Juvenile Justice
The following is a response to the December story, “For Juvenile Justice, a Panel of One,” about grant awards by the U.S....
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Creativity, Spirituality and Youth Work: Claiming the Territory
Embedded in the pages of the October Youth Today were two pieces that are worth revisiting so that they can be connected....
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I’m Darth Vader? Steinberg’s Latest Drama
Note: This is a response to a guest column last month by Laurence Steinberg of Temple University, who accused Males of exaggerating...
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How to Retain Youth Workers
The article in November regarding the work force crisis [“This Just In: Good Help is Hard to Find”] raises interesting points about...
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Wexler’s Impact Helps Kids
I had been anxiously awaiting your article on the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform [November], as I have so much admiration...
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Wrong Take on Gays in the Scouts
By positioning the Boys Scouts of America’s attitude toward gay scout leaders as a “minority” opinion on “social mores,” and including Jen...
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The Price of Following Blind Leadership
New figures reveal a disturbing combination we haven’t seen for 40 years: Teenage suicides, serious crimes and drug and alcohol deaths are...
