Youth Engagement in Advocacy
Youth Today: Rights and Responsibilities Revisited
By Karen Pittman, February 2003
Youth Today: Still at Risk, but Not at Sea
By Karen Pittman, June 2003
Twenty years ago in April, the National Commission on Excellence in Education gave the country a wake-up call with the release of A Nation at Risk, the report whose warnings about the prevalence of low expectations and low performance in American schools set the stage for today's educational standards movement.<!--break-->
Youth Today: Youth Consultants for Change
By Karen Pittman, May 2003
Summer is coming. In communities across the country, nonprofits, schools, faith groups and businesses will offer young people a broad range of structured opportunities. Some of those opportunities will even give young people a chance to contribute.<!--break-->
Youth Today: Helping Youth Tell the Truth
By Karen Pittman, September 2004
Forum Focus: Countering Structural Racism
In this issue, we continue to explore how youth activism can be used as a powerful tool for increasing both personal development and collective engagement around the issues of race and racism.
Youth Community Mobilizers Share Strategies and Advice about Building Capacity in Under-Resourced Communities
On the weekend of September 22 -23, 2006, two dozen youth (aged 15 – 20) and adults from Oasis/Community Impact! in Nashville, Tennessee; Youth in Action
Motivation for Learning: Youth Voices for Educational Change
This publication features the opinions and experiences of young people, speaking to the topic of school reform and redesign. It is based on panels facilitated in conjunction with the Carnegie Corporation Schools for a New Society Initiative and the Council of Chief State School Officers 1999 Summer Institute.
