Wednesday, May 8, 2013

More on apprenticeships from Dana Goldstein

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I've written before about the decline of apprenticeships in the United States and what it means for disadvantaged youth. Dana Goldste...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Many ways to influence policy

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My goal in writing about youth participation in decision-making has always been to encourage the involvement of young people, especially d...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Trust

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I came across a LinkedIn post last week from Bill Drayton, a former MacArthur Fellow and founder of Ashoka, an amazing organization that s...
Monday, March 11, 2013

The real challenge to youth civic participation, Part 1

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It's been ten months! Guess it's time for another post.   *   *   *   *   * When we in the U.S. speak of civic education we ...
Friday, May 11, 2012

New Resource: Selected international good practices in youth participation at the local level

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I just posted a new resource on the Leading Now website . It's a list of sixteen local youth participation projects in Switzerland, Finl...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012

On apprenticeships

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Before there were schools, there were apprenticeships. Young people learned a trade from a journeyman, and once these young people attaine...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Performance-based learning and youth civic engagement

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In recent years there has been a movement in K-12 education in the U.S. toward what is known, variously, as “performance-based learning,” ...