Youth Today
Opinion
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New Schools = New Opportunities for Youth Groups
Here’s a fact that may not have yet crossed the radar screen of most youth workers: America is involved in a major...
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Taking Collaboration for Youth Seriously
As chairman of the National Collaboration for Youth, a coalition of more than 40 national nonprofit youth-serving and youth-interested organizations, I am...
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Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
Suddenly, the world is filled with nasty girls. “Girls just want to be mean,” the New York Times Magazine announced last year,...
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A Bend in the Trends
A battery of positive youth indicators over the past decade has brought encouraging news to all youth workers. Teen pregnancy, smoking and...
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Letters to the Editor
Feeling Green Ann De LacyOlney, Md. Jim Myer’s story about the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation (“Football Star Scores in Washington,” July/August)...
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Gutless About Gut Issues
Obesity has only recently been publicized as a major American public health crisis, and already authorities are pushing the usual politically popular...
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Out at School
In July, The New York Post broke the news about New York City’s decision to open Harvey Milk High School, the first...
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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...
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A Gift Too Far
The Bush administration’s latest “play now, pay later” tax cut is now the law of the land. The cumulative impact of the...
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Youth and Financial Assets
Capitalism doesn’t worship the young for nothing. The teenage and tween buying market is huge, with kids spending $9.5 billion on personal...
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Letters to the Editor
Promise to Get the FactsPeter A. Gallagher, CEOAmerica’s Promise Alexandria, Va.Wraparound’s I am writing in response to your recent Nose Knows column...
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21st Century Skills and Indicators
We’re getting close. On June 5, 50 hand-picked researchers, practitioners and policy experts from academia and youth development gathered in Washington at...
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Summertime: Is the Living Too Easy?
Many of the young people that youth agencies serve are about to lose a lot of what they’ve spent the past nine...
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Responding to Crisis
The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal offers an ever-growing list of lessons in how to handle or flub an organizational crisis, with...
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Rally for AmeriCorps
Since the 1993 passage of Bill Clinton’s national service legislation that set up the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the...
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A New ‘To Do’ List For Youth Work
Why do you make a personal “to do” list? To get things done. To set priorities and work efficiently. To hold yourself...
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Letters to the Editor for June 2003
Ex-Panther Is No HeroJohn W. McCullough, Executive DirectorNew Justice Conflict Resolution Services Syracuse, N.Y. I am deeply troubled by your laudatory article...
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Kids, Talk to Your Grownups
“Talk to your kids about” drugs, violence and sex, urge various advertisements featuring West Wing celebrities, drug czars and other panacea-types. But...
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Still at Risk, but Not at Sea
Twenty years ago in April, the National Commission on Excellence in Education gave the country a wake-up call with the release of...
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Time to Mark Our Territory
While American and British youth work may look similar, they operate in very different cultures and funding contexts. Moreover, the youth work...
