Karen Pittman's Youth Today Columns
Karen Pittman, Executive Director of the Forum, regularly writes a column for Youth Today, the newspaper on youth work. This archive includes articles from her entire stint writing for Youth Today and covers a variety of topics related to children and youth.
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| Youth Today: High School After-School: Oxymoron or Opportunity? |
By Karen Pittman, November 2002 The idea of "high school after-school programming" is an oxymoron if one's image of after-school activities involves 11-year-olds munching snacks, getting help with their homework and finding creative outlets for their energy until their parents arrive at 6 p.m. |
11/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: A Delicate Balance |
By Karen Pittman, October 2002 There is a new mantra on Capitol Hill: scientifically-based research. The term is used more than 100 times in the No Child Left Behind legislation. But... What exactly is scientifically-based research? Is there enough of it available to really guide policy development and implementation? |
10/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Free-Choice Learning |
By Karen Pittman, September 2002 |
09/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Journalists, Teach Thy Selves |
By Karen Pittman, July 2002 |
07/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Needed: Calluses, Credits and Credentials |
By Karen Pittman, June 2002 “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, do youth work.” |
06/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: First to Guess, Last to Know |
By Karen Pittman, May 2002 There are moments when all your youth work training fails you. I just had one. My son is one of the most wonderfully bright, witty, head-on-straight people I know. Of my three children, he’s the one I lecture the least. Not surprisingly, he’s the one I talk to the most. |
05/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Powerful Pathways Indeed |
By Karen Pittman, April 2002 Vulnerable youth. College access. Career success. Alternative pathways. Alternative credits. Learning supports. |
04/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Early and Sustained Supports Needed |
By Karen Pittman, March 2002 |
03/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: Wanted: New Words, New Policies |
By Karen Pittman, February 2002 This just in: “Tween” has been chosen as the 2001 word-of-the-year by Webster’s. Prepubescent 9- to 12-year-olds are enough of a market force that the term coined in 1966 by Harper’s Magazine has now been upgraded from popular slang to official English. |
02/01/2002 | |
| Youth Today: An Official Seal of Approval |
By Karen Pittman, December 2001 |
12/01/2001 |