Youth Today
Guest Opinion Essay
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Uncertain Future
In January, the American Youth Policy Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary by issuing Decade of Service Awards. Youth Today was surprised and...
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Letters to the Editor
Their MoneyJohn Brewster, CEOBoys & Girls Club of Santa AnaSanta Ana, Calif. As the president of a 50-year affiliate of Boys &...
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Bio-illogical
Americans’ grotesque compulsion to trash their kids resurfaced in recent media alarms of a “middle-school sexual revolution.” Has anyone presented evidence of...
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Politics + Science = Science Fiction
The Bush administration unveiled its request last month to cut funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CLC) program by 40...
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Class Warfare (Youth Division)
To many youth workers, federal tax policy is as remote from their everyday lives as Iraq is from Peoria. But they’d do...
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Letters to the Editor
More Money For MentoringGeorge L. Garrow, Executive DirectorNational Organization of Concerned Black MenWashington, D.C. I read with interest your article on national...
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Rights and Responsibilities
“Third time’s a charm.” It’s one of those family sayings that I have found to be not only colorful, but equally applicable...
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Ashcroft’s Death Wish
It is hard to imagine a more worthy candidate for the juvenile death penalty than 17-year-old John Lee Malvo. He stands accused...
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Letters to the Editor
Front-Line Youth WorkersLorenzo D. Harrison, AdministratorOffice of Youth ServicesU.S. Department of LaborWashington, DC Thanks for the honorable mention in your editorial [October]...
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Freedom: For Adults Only
In recent visits to Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Ecuador, I saw adolescents routinely behaving in ways that would horrify American experts:...
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Time to Support Families with Youth
October marked Al and Tipper Gore’s 11th Annual Family Reunion in Nashville. The theme of this year’s gathering, which drew more than...
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Wanted: More Militant Mentors for Mentoring
It’s hard to name an approach to positive youth development more universally praised than mentoring. President after president has advocated adult mentoring...
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Facts Wrong On Hewlett Story
Paul Brest, PresidentThe William and Flora Hewlett FoundationMenlo Park, Calif.From the assertion that the Hewlett Foundation’s assets are $9 billion to the...
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Boosting Youth Work’s Stature
Ralph RosenbergExecutive DirectorCoalition for Family and Children’s ServicesDes Moines, Iowa“Aiding Front Line Youth Workers” [October] is a timely editorial. Hopefully, the editorial...
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Drug Test Nonsense
Fran RothsteinRothstein ConsultingChevy Chase, Md.Not only do extracurricular activities inhibit substance abuse and other high-risk behaviors, as Jane Quinn correctly claims in...
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Foster Parents Burned Out
Donna Metcalf Barre, Vt.Your article [“Is This Any Way to Treat Foster Parents?” July/August] touched on several areas where there are problems...
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Review Harmful to Readers
Judith LevineBrooklyn, N.Y.Contrary to the implication of Steven Mintz’s review [The Youth Today Review of Books, October], my book, “Harmful to Minors,”...
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Ed Dept. Shuffles Research, Safe Schools Offices
Several offices and responsibilities are being shifted at the U.S. Department of Education in an effort to improve the quality of research...
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Service-Learning Sits in School
In the only state that makes every youth perform “service” in order to graduate from high school, the concept of service has...
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Aiding Front-Line Youth Workers
The human service work force is arguably the least visible part of the American labor market of 134 million wage earners. A...
