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Download full textChildren Now, 2020
California has long been on the cutting edge of social and political change. This trendsetting continues today on issues from addressing climate change to supporting immigrant communities to ensuring equal rights for all. But, when reviewing the grades of this year's California Children's Report Card, it is difficult not to ask the question: why…
Descriptors: Well Being, Health Insurance, Child Health, Accountability
Children Now, 2020
The 2020 Pro-Kid Policy Agenda for California is the comprehensive roadmap at the state level to ensure that all children have the necessary supports to reach their full potential. California has an obligation to tear down the structural barriers to all kids, especially kids of color, from growing up healthy, safe, and ready for college, career,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Equal Education, Child Health
Afterschool Alliance, 2011
In order to ensure that middle school youth are on a path toward higher education and careers, an early introduction to the importance of continuing education past high school is necessary. The middle school years are a vital time to teach the importance of college and career readiness and the linkages to success in life. This issue brief…
Descriptors: Careers, Middle School Students, Higher Education, Core Curriculum
Taking Your Place: A Summer Program to Encourage Nontraditional Career Choices for Adolescent Girls.
Peer reviewedRea-Poteat, Mary B.; Martin, Pat F. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Describes two-week summer program for adolescent girls featuring awareness of nontraditional career choices provided via cooperative plan from public school system, community college, and university. Notes that, upon completion of 80 hours of activities such as business and industry visitations, technical/trade shop hands-on activities, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Choice, Females, Higher Education
Direct linkKnapp, Clifford E., Ed.; Smith, Thomas E., Ed. – Association for Experiential Education (NJ3), 2005
What do solitude experiences offer in this increasingly high-speed, technically dependent world? As this book inspiringly reveals, solo quests can provide powerful reconnection with the natural world, the true self, and the great mystery beyond. As Parker Palmer writes in "To Know as We Are Known," "Solitude calls us to confront…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Recreational Activities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA. Center for Human Resources. – 1995
The Quantum Opportunities Program (QOP) is an innovative 4-year year-round pilot program that provides learning opportunities, development opportunities, service opportunities, and summer jobs to small groups of youth from families receiving public assistance. In 1994, the Ford Foundation commissioned an evaluation of the QOP. Between 1989 and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Organizations, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
Ho, Kwok Keung, Ed. – New Horizons in Education, 2003
This journal, written in English and Chinese, includes the following papers: "Values for Creativity: A Study among Undergraduates in Hong Kong and Guangzhou" (Xia Dong Yue and Kok Leung); "The Present Situation of Family Education at the Turn of the Century: An Investigation in Three South-Eastern Provinces in China" (Feng…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, College School Cooperation, Discipline
