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“Character” Purists, Cleanse Thyselves

Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...

Battle Stations

When the 107th Congress convened in January, supporters of positive youth development had great hopes for the Younger Americans Act (YAA), unveiled...

Reading Between the Studies

“System building is slow. …The diversity of the field has all kinds of implications. …Only a modest percentage of low-income children participate....

A Taxing Summer Ahead?

Congress is debating domestic taxation and spending priorities for next year and beyond. The debate has narrowed to two choices: Cut taxes...

Lost Time for Learning

I have written this op-ed in different forms and in different places since 1979. It is spring, and that can only mean...

Policy, Policy, Policy

I hate receptions and cocktail parties. One reason is that I am basically anti-social. Another is that I hate the inevitable question,...

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...

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...

Have Faith, but Deliver Results

President Bush is right to make after-school programming for American teens a high priority in these early days of his administration. It...

Leave No Child (or Family) Behind

Advocates for broader supports for children, youth and families have a common focal point: President George Bush’s tax cut proposal. Hailed by...

Clinton & Youth: 1 Good Year, 7 Bad

Great Democratic presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy extolled young people as a national inspiration deserving expansive investment. Bill Clinton led...

Not By Faith Alone

Just as Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bush the elder promoted volunteerism, President George W. Bush preaches the gospel of redemption through the...

Striving to Succeed, Daring to Fail

The achievement gap between young black and white Americans is like the Energizer Bunny: It keeps going and going and going. And...

Combating Delinquency: No Place Like Home

When it comes to combating delinquency, there’s no place like home. That’s what nine months investigating America’s juvenile crime problem for the...

Young Voters: Missing Inaction

No matter what organization sponsors youth development work, one certain feature is some variant on citizenship values – be it called civic...

Editorial

The recent White House conference on Teenagers was, for a White House that has hosted memorable events over the past two centuries,...

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...

Cashing in at Casey

The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 1999 annual report is out. Most foundations release their grantmaking decisions on a regular schedule throughout the...