Youth Development

As many of my superintendent and teacher colleagues can surely relate to, the last school year was the most challenging of my 23-year career. Our profession struggled to recover from…

Schools have received almost $190 billion for pandemic recovery, but that falls far short of the $700 billion it will take to erase the damage to learning caused by COVID,…

California law mandates standards-based instruction from kindergarten through high school in dance, music, theater and visual art. Yet, according to a recent report by SRI Education, nearly 90% of our public schools…

At last count, there are about 400 youth in Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention facilities. These numbers are both a cause for concern and celebration and redoubled commitment. Concern because…

When wildfire smoke pollutes the air in schoolyards and classrooms, it hurts not only children’s health but also their ability to learn and possibly their future earning power, according to…

Dedicated to supporting marginalized students in the recovery community, Students Recover aims to create a virtual platform to support students at minority-serving institutions that do not offer collegiate recovery programs.…

Coming back to middle school after the pandemic lockdown was scary for me. I worried about not feeling accepted in my school community. I’m a 14-year-old nonbinary Black artist. I…

More than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60 percent of the world’s urban population will be under 18 years old. Yet, children and…

School culture is intangible, but it is important because it not only influences academic achievement, but also affects how comfortable students and staff members are in their learning environment. The…

GrowCity, a paid youth internship program in Florida, is using urban agriculture to equip youth from low-income neighborhoods with interpersonal and work skills and community connections. The internship accepts up…

Project-Based Learning (PBL) can be a liberatory pedagogy tied directly to dismantling racism. Black and brown students are often walking into schools where their stories have already been written for them. We have to…