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Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for July-August 2002

Education Building a Community School, by The Children’s Aid Society, is a practical manual for school reform. The book provides innovative suggestions...

Research

Research of Note for July-August 2002

Sometimes research seems to prove the obvious, but there are times when research challenges what we think we know and has the...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for May 2002

After School "Child centers balk at policy"The Sacramento BeeA new regulation issued by Gov. Gray Davis requires childcare providers to inform...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Child’s Death Not Gun Maker’s Fault

In a setback for gun-control advocates who are focusing on the harm that guns do to children, the Maryland Court of Appeals...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Press Watch for April 2002

Child Welfare "Quotas alleged for child-abuse caseworkers"The Miami HeraldA company hired by the state of Florida to help administer child welfare...

Guest Opinion Essay

Ignorance on School Security

Kenneth S. Trump, PresidentNational School Safety and Security ServicesCleveland, OH Small Nonprofits As I read the February issue of Youth Today, I...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Youth as Peacemakers

Some 1,200 youths marched through Northern Virginia Feb. 19 to emphasize the role of youth in preventing violence and crime. The march...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for March 2002

Advocacy Children’s Rights: Policy and Practice, by John Pardeck, is a valuable tool for those who work in social services as well...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Kids Quill: Taming the Inner Bully

Research on bullying suggests that many bullies enjoy dominating others in part because of “cognitive distortions” that silence their consciences (e.g., minimizing...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen’s Suicide May Prompt New Rules on Student Pilots

Four days after a 15-year-old flight student committed suicide by flying a plane into a Florida building, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...

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Cybercafe Crackdown

The Garden Grove, Calif., city council last month imposed new restrictions on cybercafes, which cater largely to youth and young adults, after...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Pubs and Videos for February 2002

Books After-school Building Effective Afterschool Programs, by Olatokunbo Fashola, takes readers through the process of modeling, creating and evaluating four types of...

Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

Youths Create Teen Center, Knife Kills

By Frank KlimkoSumter, S.C. henever youth worker Barbara Brown drives her beige Toyota Corolla past the boarded-up brick building behind the...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

News Distorts Youth, Reports Say

Newspapers and radio and television stations vastly over-report crimes committed by people under 21, distorting the public’s image of youth and helping...

Research

Couch Potatoes Beware

The debate about the impact of TV violence continues (see Research Watch, Feb. 2001), but there is growing evidence that TV viewing...

Guest Opinion Essay

Now Try This

Two teens are dead and 18 are wounded in more school shootings, this time in surburban San Diego. The carnage revealed some...

Guest Opinion Essay

Lies, Damn Lies, and ‘Youth Risk’ Surveys

Scary survey finding: 300,000 (says the Hamilton Fish National Institute) to 350,000 (says the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) youths take...

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