Youth Today
All posts tagged "Education and Training"
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93OpinionFrom chronic absence to chosen presence: The case for new measures, especially for high schoolers
Looking at what motivates students to attend when they don’t have to could be the secret to helping communities reduce chronic absenteeism.
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1.5KOpinionWhy unconstrained kids need unconstrained ecosystems
Understanding developmental pathways of constrained and unconstrained skills helps realize the importance of learning ecosystems.
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1.3KFrom the FieldFour ways a reimagined internship prepares students – and teachers – for the future of work
District C’s Teamship program is an in-school, reimagined internship where students tackle live business challenges.
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3.7KFrom the FieldQ&A with Michaela Leslie-Rule on “How We See Us”
Katherine Plog Martinez talks with Leslie-Rule about writing “How We See Us”.
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1.7KFrom the FieldWhat back-to-school season reveals about youth in foster care — and the attendance crisis
Foster youth miss school, repeat grades and drop out more compared to their peers.
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1.8KOpinionIs the youth development field confident enough about its contributions to learning to disrupt K-12 education?
We must recognize the youth development and OST fields as complementary systems that are too important to ignore and essential.
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3.8KFrom the FieldQ&A with Michael Crawford, America Succeeds
Karen Pittman speaks with Michael Crawford, Ph.D. of America Succeeds about its goals, including why they have joined the Alliance for Youth...
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2.2KOpinionYouth financial education (literally) pays off
Mandating financial education isn’t enough. Without targeted interventions, we’re setting up a generation to learn money management through trial and error.
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3.5KOpinionQ&A: The Alliance for Youth Thriving
The Alliance for Youth Thriving connects leaders across youth sectors to tackle common challenges.
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1.3KOpinionSAT start times: A simple systems change
While adolescents are naturally inclined to sleep later than their young peers, the systems they engage in have decided that things should...
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2.0KFrom the FieldThe crisis in Gen Z’s political education
Today’s youth are forming political opinions and social identities on online platforms built for engagement.
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2.2KFrom the FieldAfterschool STEM: Turning curiosity into careers and citizenship
A growing body of evidence shows that high-quality afterschool STEM programs excite and engage youth.
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1.9KFrom the FieldWhat happens when Bronx students lead the way in STEM equity
Black and Latino students are underrepresented in STEM. Too often, this reflects a lack of access to early, hands-on, project-based STEM learning.
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4.1KNewsQ&A: Why the former CEO of AmeriCorps is excited about heading an organization he had never heard of
Karen Pittman talks with Michael Smith about building pathways to success for opportunity youth.
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1.8KOpinionShared advocacy and sustainable financing: Making a “big picture” case for community supports
Communities are intertwined and organic, blending funding into a web of community supports.
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1.9KOpinionDetained and in the dark: Girls in juvenile detention need menstrual health education now
Young women/girls in juvenile detention lack fundamental knowledge needed for choices about their bodies.
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3.8KFrom the FieldQ&A: How service learning, done well, changes lives
Karen Pittman speaks with YSA's Scott Ganske about the current state of service learning.
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3.1KOpinionEducation and youth development are under attack: Now is the time to talk differently and act together
We have to build forward with a grounding in the evidence of what works.
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2.7KOpinionCollege affordability is undermining student mental health. We can’t address one without the other.
College affordability isn’t separate from mental health; it’s at the center of it.
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1.7KOpinionWhat is the next step?
We should build options for students to gain skills needed for alternative career pathways.
