All posts tagged "race ethnicity and gender"

Latinos and Education: Explaining the Attainment Gap

  The Pew Hispanic Center Less than half of Hispanic youth are likely to pursue a college education, according to this new...

My American Dream: Stories of Immigration

John C. Williams, Stephanie Walter Williams Reel Works Teen Filmmaking77 minutes. DVD $75. These 11 short films in the “By Teens for...

Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson

  Sharon Robinson; illustratedby Kadir NelsonScholastic Press40 pages. $16.99. Sharing a family incident from her childhood, Sharon Robinson bears testament to her...

Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Diagnoses of ADHD/ADD and of Learning Disability

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Though it makes no effort to establish possible causes and some of its findings are...

A Novel Approach on Litigating DMC

For 20 years, few juvenile justice systems have done little more than study the problem of disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the...

Litigating DMC Part Two: How It Came Together

Our previous post covered a new strategy on how to compel juvenile justice systems to address DMC rather than just study it...

‘Men II Boys’ Examines the Toll of Fatherlessness among Black Youth

  Learn how to tie a tie. Know when to keep silent and when to speak up. Keep illegal substances out of...

Finally Proud to be Korean

Race Shouldn’t Matter

Britawnya Craft, 18LA Youth, Los Angeles At my school, the majority of the black students hang out at the table at the...

America’s Invisible Children

The front (intake and court proceedings) and side (alternatives to incarceration) of the JJ system need work when it comes to Latino...

A ‘Five-Star’ President Who Happens to be Bi-Racial

  On Jan. 20, I joined millions of Americans and millions more around the world to watch the inauguration of our 44th...

Successful Transition to Adolescence Begins at Home

Program: Strong African American Families (SAAF) Organization: Center for Family Research, University of Georgia Type of Evaluation: Researchers examined whether this intervention,...

Muslim American Youth: Understanding Hyphenated Identities Through Multiple Methods

  Selcuk R. Sirin, Michelle FineNew York University Press243 pages. $70 ($23 paperback). To discover how the post-9/11 atmosphere affects diverse American-born...

Lawyers for Immigrant Youth

Microsoft Corp., actress Angelina Jolie and 25 law firms and corporate law departments have formed an organization to assist the approximately 8,000...

No More Labels for Me

  LA Youth, Los Angeles I was in seventh grade when people started to get curious about what I was. Most kids...

Number of Young Homicide Victims Rises

Young black males are being murdered, and being arrested for murder, at a far higher rate than they were in 2002, according...

Burns Releases First in Series of DMC Reports

The San Francisco-based Burns Institute (BI) has released the first installment of “Adoration of the Question,” the first in a series of...

Feedback on DMC, JJ Reform Stories

We received several letters about a package on juvenile justice reform that appeared in our print edition (“A Tale of Two Reforms,”...

Seeing Beyond Ourselves

Age 20NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK American history lessons teach us that presidential candidates have, until now, always been white men. So...

Discontent on DMC

[Correction: Because of an editing error, a sidebar story to November’s “Tale of Two Reforms,” titled “Discontent on DMC,” referred to a...