Youth Today
Opinion
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Top Headlines 3/7
Child Welfare Ana Valdes of the Palm Beach Post reports that three events to be held today could all shed light on...
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Weekly Notes: Push-back on the Obama JJ plan; Major Luzerne update; Onion paying attention to juvenile justice issues; and more
***The President released his 2012 budget on Monday, and it included a proposal to drastically change the structure of federal juvenile justice...
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Let’s Help Youth Who Are in Doubt and in Debt
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
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Top Headlines 1/7
Child Welfare George State Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver wrote a long op-ed in yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the state’s use of psychotropic...
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Top Headlines 12/28
Child Welfare Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, in an op-ed that appeared in The Oklahoman last week,...
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Top Headlines 12/17
Child Welfare Stories from three states where settlements from class-action lawsuits from nonprofit litigator Children’s Rights are still being monitored: The Tennessean...
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The $5 Billion Blunder
Suppose that, five years ago, you had a large sum of money to invest and two financial advisors competing for your business....
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Top Headlines 11/9
Child Welfare Washington, D.C. has settled for $10 million with a five-year-old boy who the city placed with an abusive foster mother,...
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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...
