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Go Global, Too

Rosemary Tisch, FounderKids Are SpecialFamily Education FoundationSan Jose, CA I just finished reading your [February] article, “U.S. Youth Programs Go Global.” Because...

Early and Sustained Supports Needed

Early investments have big payoffs. We know this from the High/Scope Perry Preschool Project in Michigan that is often credited for the...

Forging 21st Century Partnerships

Now that the ink is dry on the recently reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), it’s time to examine the implications...

Sane School House Safety

No national youth policy issue is more off track than the effort to make schools safe for children and staff. A series...

“Senior Year” Refreshes, ASH Chokes

I have never met a “typical teenager.” Sullen, alienated, immature, impulsive, rebellious, obnoxious, immortality-deluded, high-risk? I’ve encountered as many grownups (me, for...

Wanted: New Words, New Policies

This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 Word-of-the-Year by “Webster’s.” Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market...

Betwixt and Between

In many people’s minds, welfare teens and teen parents are synonymous. But they’re not. The first group is much larger than the...

Does ‘Adolescence’ Mean ‘Abstain’ from Everything’?

America’s ultimate prevention goal is that no teenager ever have sex, drink alcohol, witness explicit media, enjoy free time not rigidly structured...

Pork: Best Killed by Kindness

No, not the sputtering United Way, but the unraveling of Congress’ ill-advised practice of “earmarking” groups in the children and youth field...

A Summit Too Sad

Somewhere in the bowels of the White House someone someday somehow will see the connection between the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future...

I Love and Hate My Job, Maybe

There is a tendency in youth work to either romanticize the task – “We’re saving kids, doing the Lord’s...

Compassionate Conversion

“Of all the survivors of the Clinton era, the most unlikely may be AmeriCorps, the administration’s ‘national service’ program.” So wrote Les...

The Hardy Life of Worst Practice

Much is made in the youth service field of “best practice,” as well it should be. Striving for positive results for young...

YAA: More Important Than You Think

Convinced that the Younger Americans Act (YAA) is the legislative marker that could finally put youth development on the map? You are...

“Character” Purists, Cleanse Thyselves

Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...

Battle Stations

When the 107th Congress convened in January, supporters of positive youth development had great hopes for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), unveiled...