All posts tagged "Race/Ethnicity"

Brother, Can You Spare Some Time?

  Ann Arbor, Mich.—When Shenida Smith turned to the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization last year to find mentors for her...

Between Two Worlds: How Young Latinos Come of Age in America

  Pew Hispanic Center Latino youth are more likely than other American youth to drop out of school, become teenage parents, and...

Strengthening Indian Country Through Tribal Youth Programs

  American Youth Policy Forum & Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention This report on Tribal Youth Programs (TYPs), which help...

Weekly Notes: Cabinet converges for coordinating council; ICAC grant available; and more

***There is officially a sign that the administration of Barack Obama has juvenile justice on its radar. And it came down unto...

Q&A: Burns Institute Executive Director James Bell

The W. Haywood Burns Institute, led by Executive Director James Bell, endeavors to address and then reduce racial disparities in local juvenile...

Charting a Necessary Path

Too few low-income and minority students are enrolling in and graduating from college, according to a new report released by The National...

A College Degree Won’t Make You Free

  A lot of people who’ve read Carter G. Woodson’s famous 1933 treatise, The Mis-Education of the Negro, believe the book’s message...

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...