This paper examines the significance of social network and social capital in youth transition from school to work, with a focus on both instrumental and expressive aspects. In recent years the transition of Japanese young people has changed drastically, similar to young people in other industrialised countries. The individualisation of transition…

Research supported by a Ford Foundation grant.

Although it seems plausible that a decline in the youth population would lead to a shortage of youth labor, this conclusion is based on unfounded assumptions and anecdotal accounts. Employment opportunities for teenagers are declining faster than the teenage population. (LHW)

Consideration is given to the importance of including ecological awareness in the education of young Americans. (FF)

Describes the variety of Japanese youth programs which provide the opportunity for activities outside the realm of academic affairs for urban youth. (AN)

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,…

Learning leadership happens experientially, through involvement in opportunities to practice the skills, experiment with approaches, and try on the roles. For youth leadership development, it means creating opportunities for young people to do more than hear stories of great leadership or participate in skills-building activities. In much of her…

Article examined the efforts of the United Nations to establish channels of communication with youth and international youth organizations. (Author/RK)

Article outlined some of the issues with which schools must be prepared to deal if they hope to expand and enrich the action-learning components in an instructional program. (Author/RK)

Author argued that the DES's review of the youth service is "utterly devoid of moral considerations or a human dimension." (Editor/RK)

This article elaborates on the problems of communication between counselors and Black disadvantaged students and how the press for programmed ways of helping Blacks find opportunity has sometimes obscured the focus on individual development. (Author)

Teenagers in Hull, England participated in Young Enterprise," a program similar to the Junior Achievement in the United States. (SP)

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

Devices made posible by advances in medicine and engineering are enabling thousands of limb-deficient youngsters to hold their own. (Editor)

This article is a discussion by the chairman of the Panel on Youth of the President's Science Advisory Committee of a report developed by his committee and its implications with the Wingspread conference group. (Editor/RK)