Youth Today
Book Reviews
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8.2KBook Makes Strong Case For Free Play: Will After-school Field Take Note?
Several years ago when Pasi Sahlberg was a visiting professor of practice at Harvard, he took his young son to visit a...
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9.7KOutstanding Insights About SEL in OST in Major Book
“Social and Emotional Learning in Out-of-School Time: Foundations and Futures” is the second volume in the “Current Issues in Out-of-School Time” series...
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8.9K‘Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth’
“Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth” sheds a critical light on the winding journeys into adulthood of 25...
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10.5KThe Growing Out-of-school Time Field Past, Present, and Future
“The Growing Out-of-School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future” is, above all else, an attempt to unite the out-of-school time (OST) field,...
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9.7K‘Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System’
Anthropologist Tina Lee immersed herself in the exotic culture of a child welfare agency, its folkways, “clients,” employees and contractors. She has...
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8.8KAll Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island
Liza Jessie Peterson’s “All Day” is a moving account of her career working with young men at New York’s notorious Rikers Island....
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9.0KPushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools
“Though media and advocacy efforts have largely focused on the extreme and intolerable abuse cases...
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4.6KEnding Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline
Black’s book is necessary reading for educators and those who work with youth, whether during classroom hours or in an after-school setting.
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4.5KStephanie Krauss: What’s On Your Bookshelf?
Looking for some good reading to expand your knowledge and youth-development practice? Youth Today speaks with leading experts in the field to...
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5.3KSee Poverty…Be the Difference! Discover the Missing Pieces for Helping People Move Out of Poverty
“For generations, my family has subsisted on minimum-wage employment and migrant work,” writes Donna Beegle in the opening of “See Poverty…Be the...
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3.4KGarbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir
“I always felt isolated and alone” in foster care, begins Shenandoah Chefalo in “Garbage Bag Suitcase.” “As soon as I understood that...
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2.3KThe Therapist’s Notebook for Children and Adolescents
“The Therapist’s Notebook for Children and Adolescents" is a compendium of useful tools to support children and teens — with useful information...
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2.4KWhat’s On Your Bookshelf? Teresa Huizar, National Children’s Alliance
Youth-development leaders to share what’s on top of their reading lists. Hear from Teresa Huizar, executive director of the National Children’s Alliance.
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4.1KIn the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“This is the domain of addiction, where we constantly seek something outside ourselves to curb an insatiable yearning for relief or fulfillment.”
