I served as the founding principal of The International High School @ Prospect Heights in Brooklyn for five and a half years....
Mentor: The Kid and the CEOTom Pace with Walter JenkinsMentorHope Publishing175 pages. Audiobook also available. Based on author Tom Pace’s experiences, this...
Parent, Teacher, Mentor, Friend: How Every Adult Can Change Kids’ LivesPeter L. BensonSearch Institute Press198 pages. “Society does not have a youth...
Imagine you are a child having trouble feeling secure in your home environment. Or, maybe your parents are incarcerated. Or, perhaps, you...
In 2009, the American Humanics board of directors moved forward to study changing the organization’s name. Perhaps it would have been easier...
The one American college perhaps most synonymous with traditional postsecondary ideals has issued a report championing community colleges over four-year schools in...
Once again, young people are bearing the brunt of our failure to monitor effectively the institutions they go to for help. You...
What Are Business Leaders Saying about Workforce Readiness? Corporate Voices for Working Families The vast majority of America’s business leaders believe investing...
The practice of “earmarking” federal money, a Congressional device with debatable impact on the field of youth work, may soon face extinction....
***We already posted a piece today on Rep. John Kline and reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The other...
I heard a colleague suggest that youth-serving agencies are trying to hitch their wagons to the education-reform train; well, more specifically, riding...
Great Group Games for Kids: 150 Meaningful Activities for Any SettingSusan Ragsdale and Ann SaylorSearch Institute Press/Independent Publishers Group223 pages. This...
A nearly 700-page federal report says character education – a pillar of former president George W. Bush’s youth policy – does not...
Efficacy of Schoolwide Programs to Promote Social and Character Development and Reduce Problem Behavior in Elementary School Children National Center for Education...
Over the past two decades policymakers began looking at schools as a delivery model for health and human services for students and...
When violence occurs on the street or in the home, the impact on child witnesses is often overlooked by busy police, parents...
The Obama administration on Tuesday named 21 winners in one if its most coveted youth-related grant programs: the Promise Neighborhoods Initiative. More...
100 Best Communities for Young People America’s Promise There are 30 new names among America’s Promise Alliance’s 100 Best Communities for...
CHA Transformation: Children and Youth Urban Institute Closing down a troubled public housing community appears to have helped the children. The closing...
Review of Three Recent Randomized Trials of School-Based Mentoring: Making Sense of Mixed Findings Society for Research in Child Development This report,...