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The President’s Tilted Playing Field

Should a 19-year-old who is living on his own after leaving foster care have as much of a chance to get $5,000...

Editorial

Matching the Job to the Task On Feb. 3, Michael Hernandez of Miami slit the throat of fellow 14-year-old Jamie Gough in...

Connecting Vulnerable Youth

School dropouts, arguably the most vulnerable youth group in the United States, are also a group for which there is no meaningful...

Letters to the Editor

What Happened At MaryvilleRichard WexlerExecutive DirectorNational Coalition for Child Protection ReformAlexandria, VA The notion that Maryville [Academy] became a hellhole because poor,...

California’s Winter of Hate

February’s column featured anthropologist Margaret Mead’s warning that adults in modern cultures that are jolted by rapid social change will come to...

Behind the Teen Pregnancy Drop: Teens

“Less sex, more contraception.” That’s the story behind the continued drop in teenage pregnancy rates. According to the latest data, teen pregnancy...

An Industry in Denial

In June, Youth Today ran a story alleging that somewhere in Santa Clara County, Calif., there is an institution called EMQ Children...

An Unexpected Gift

The lead story in last month’s Youth Today was about the new report from the White House Task Force for Disadvantaged Youth...

A Winning Formula For Staff Effectiveness

As youth work practitioners, most of us have long believed that effective programs depend in large measure on the availability of competent,...

Time to Sow Seeds, Not to Space Out

Now that the federal budget deficit is out of this world at $500 billion and counting, President Bush wants to put down...

Use History to Improve Youth Work

The last issue of Youth Today focused on some historical themes, from the National Youth Admin- istration in the Depression to today’s...

Letters to the Editor

Coalition Deserves Praise, Not DerisionVincent SchiraldiExecutive DirectorJustice Policy Institute Mark Soler, PresidentYouth Law CenterWashington, DC We read your article about the troubles...

Coming of Age in America

Remember that phony list of the “top school problems” of 1940 (“talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in halls, getting out of...

We Can Reform Juvenile Justice

Most of us in youth work would agree there is a crying need to move policies and programs toward a more balanced...

One Man as an Institute for Ideas

David Weikart, founder and president emeritus of High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, died on Dec. 9. Through the magic of cell phones, I...

History Lessons

American youth workers are second to none in their obliviousness to their field’s history – and a rich history it is. In...

Letters to the Editor

A Writer In DenialShay Bilchik, PresidentChild Welfare League of AmericaWashington, DC I read with interest and amusement the article by Richard Wexler...