The Commission on Education and Employment Opportunities for Young People (Youth Commission) aims to find ways to improve education and employment opportunities for England's 16-24-year olds. The Commission's first report (see ED604277) identified five key challenges: (1) Better supporting 700,000 young people not in education, employment or…

In contrast to the focus on short-term, extrinsic goals in our society (e.g., wealth, prestige), positive youth development scholars have highlighted the need for parents and schools to help youths cultivate and plan for long-term, intrinsic, and meaningful goals (i.e., envisioning a meaningful future), arguing that envisioning a meaningful future…

Critical racial studies of school choice elucidate the worsening effects of school choice policy on racial segregation in diversifying cities around the world. This paper contributes to this scholarship by illuminating how a neoliberal education policy of school choice has created racial divisions in new ways in a settler-colonial city. It focuses…

This article examines the precarious learning-to-work transitions experienced by aboriginal youth in the Canadian oil sands mining industry. Drawing from an empirical case study of a mine-sponsored, pre-apprenticeship training programme, challenges experienced by programme participants, as well as their socialisation into the world of work are…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to cross-validate FITNESSGRAM® aerobic and body composition standards in a representative sample of Hungarian youth. Method: A nationally representative sample (N = 405) of Hungarian adolescents from the Hungarian National Youth Fitness Study (ages 12-18.9 years) participated in an aerobic capacity assessment…

A striking convergence of research, documentation, commentary, and policy in the past five years strongly suggests that an almost exclusive focus on academic knowledge and skills is an incomplete solution. Additional behaviors, skills, and mindsets--sometimes called metacognitive skills or 21st-century skills--are just as necessary for academic…

The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…

Keeping all adolescents in high school longer will not necessarily solve illiteracy, crime, and unemployment problems. Dropout prevention programs are already on a collision course with demands for higher promotion and graduation standards. What urban dropouts need is to exchange city slums for a revised version of the Civilian Conservation Corps,…

James S. Coleman discusses youth and their problems in an interview. (RC)

Examines attitudes of Scottish youth toward the Youth Training Scheme (YTS), a program of reduced-wage training and employment. Attitudinal differences toward the program attributed to social class, gender, and area unemployment rate are discussed. Findings reveal mixed attitudes toward the program. (Author/GEA)

Argues for cooperation between the schools and Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) so that students will have the benefit of education and of training. (IRT)

The author lists a variety of leadership activities for Future Farmers of America (FFA) members and notes that an FFA alumni group can be a valuable asset in supporting vocational agriculture and the FFA. (MF)

Describes activities of the Future Farmers of America and the opportunities for leadership training and development that it provides. (MF)

Argues for the importance of providing adolescents with opportunities to care about and contribute to their communities. Briefly describes several programs that have been based on youth participation. (IRT)

Because there is no comprehensive policy in Australia for dealing with the problems or needs of youth, this study surveys research on issues, responsibilities, and services involving youth (in Australia, defined as those ages 15-19). The educational and governmental services provided by the federal and Victoria state governments are emphasized,…