Youth Today
All posts tagged "Youth Development"
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Zero Tolerance, Zero Evidence: An Analysis of School Disciplinary Practice
By Russell Skiba Indiana Education Policy Center This report explores the effects and side-effects of extreme punishment – usually suspension or expulsion...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Preserved In Idaho
Rural preservationists take note: The National Family Preservation Network’s nine-year odyssey from the Hunter College School of Social Work to the Maryland...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Enterprise Not Enough
Even the most enterprising of national groups that are not youth-specific can find launching, managing and sustaining a youth development program an...
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Anti-Drug Programs that Work?
Project Northland Developed by University of Minnesota, this program targets sixth- through eighth-graders and seeks to delay the age at which teens...
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► Newsmakers
Promising Practices: Supporting Transition of Youth Served by the Foster Care System
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine National Resource Center...
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New Congress, New Approach to Youth
BY SUE BADEAU The 107th Congress convened Jan. 3, and a flurry of proposed bills as well as new committee assignments signal...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Labor Burned Over Kids Cooking Rules
With more than half of all 15- to 17-year-olds employed in the retail trade industry-such as fast food, restaurants, and grocery stores-the...
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► Newsmakers
National Groups
The U.S. program office of the Baltimore-based International Youth Foundation (IYF) is changing its name and modifying its mission. Located in the...
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► Reports
New Rules, New Roles: Preparing All Young People for a Changing World
This report profiles six successful programs in career exploration and preparation for young people. Youth and youth-serving institutions today, the report says,...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Britain Implements National Youth Policy
London—In an effort to pursue a single, comprehensive national youth policy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labor government has launched a Children...
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News
America’s Promise Mentoring Impact is Foggy in Philly
PHILADELPHIA—It is a mentor’s mecca, this town of cheesesteaks, hoagies and sticky buns. That was one of the...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Editorial
The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...
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Guest Opinion Essay
Imbedding Positive Youth Development
In recent years many of us who have been laboring in the vineyards of youth work have come to embrace positive youth...
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News
Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology
Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
White House Gathering Plugs Positive Youth Development
The Clinton administration held the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers last month and put the accent on the positive – forging...
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► Reports
Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
Mentoring helps improve youths’ grades, school attendance and family relationships, and helps prevent alcohol and drug initiation, says this report financed by...
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Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Some Philly Programs Cruise, Others Feel a Bumpy Ride
Mary Strasser calls it “the Cadillac of school-to-career programs.” Mary Jane Clancy, executive director of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of...
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News
Computers Mean Business For Teens
For the teens in Plugged In Enterprises, the experience is part real-world business, part structured learning and part community service. It is...
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► Reports
National Job Corps Study: The Short-Term Impacts of Job Corps on Participants’ Employment and Related Outcomes
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
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News
In New Courts, Kids on Drugs Get the Treatment
Phoenix, Ariz.—Garrett is just 14, but he’s about to fail a test that could send him to jail. “I was around some...
