Americas Problem Youth

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583673474
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth: Reform Beyond Electoral Politics written by Henry A. Giroux and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's latest war, according to renowned social critic Henry Giroux, is a war on youth. While this may seem counterintuitive in our youth-obsessed culture, Giroux lays bare the grim reality of how our educational, social, and economic institutions continually fail young people. Their systemic failure is the result of what Giroux identifies as ""four fundamentalisms"": market deregulation, patriotic and religious fervor, the instrumentalization of education, and the militarization of society. We see the consequences most plainly in the decaying education system: schools are increasingly desi.

Author : Jennifer Lee
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415946698
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian American Youth written by Jennifer Lee and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Skye G. Arthur-Banning
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440843023
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Sports in America written by Skye G. Arthur-Banning and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a former Olympic consultant, this book examines youth sports in America today, from institutions that dominate organized youth sports to high-profile controversies ranging from burnout and out-of-control parents to the health risks of youth football. As organized youth sports occupy an ever-greater role in the lives of American families, critics have begun to question whether some programs and participants have lost their way. This timely book examines the state of youth sports in America today, analyzing how organized sports influence communities, discussing the potential emotional and physical benefits as well as drawbacks of youth sports, and profiling the industry's key participants, ranging from parent coaches to club sports owners to personal trainers. The work begins with a look at the evolution of youth sports in the United States, then explores such topics as burnout, self-discipline, performance-enhancing drugs, parental violence, and scholarships. The content includes coverage of 20 individual youth sports, such as basketball, softball, lacrosse, baseball, volleyball, football, soccer, cross-country, and swimming, and provides breakdowns of historical and current participation rates, injury rates, and sport-specific scholarship trends. Each summary includes contact information on important organizations specific to that sport.

Author : Richard A. Reiman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820336963
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Deal and American Youth written by Richard A. Reiman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When President Franklin Roosevelt formed the National Youth Administration (NYA) in June 1935, he declared that it would address "the most pressing and immediate needs" of American young people. In this book Richard A. Reiman explores the various, and sometimes conflicting, ways in which the NYA planners and administrators defined those needs and attempted to answer them. As Reiman notes, the NYA was established to assist the millions of youth who, during the Depression years, were out of school, out of work, and ineligible for the New Deal's own Civilian Conservation Corps. Contrary to popular belief, he argues, New Dealers did not envision the NYA primarily as a "junior WPA," a trigger for civil rights reform, or a springboard for the careers of liberal administrators. Rather, its designers saw it as a reform agency that would advance and protect democracy by countering totalitarian appeals to young people and by equalizing educational opportunities for rich and poor. Woven into the successive drafts establishing the NYA, these twin purposes united the programs of planners as disparate as Aubrey W. Williams, Mary McLeod Bethune, John Studebaker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charles Taussig, and FDR himself. Like their separate agendas, Reiman shows, the planners' shared concerns for democratic values were the products of thinking that had arisen during the Progressive Era - a time when an awareness of the social effects of child development first occurred. During the 1930s, fears of fascism and totalitarianism added fuel to these concerns and shaped much of the nature of the NYA's prewar appeal. Based on a wide range of sources, including NYA-related documents at the National Archives and at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, The New Deal and American Youth is the first full-length study of this important agency. By showing how the NYA served as an instrument for realizing so many New Deal ambitions, it offers rich insights into both the NYA and the New Deal.

Author : Phil LaMarche
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369811
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Youth written by Phil LaMarche and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Youth is a controlled, essential, and powerful tale of a teenager in southern New England who is confronted by a terrible moral dilemma following a fatal firearms accident in his home. This tragedy earns him the unwelcome admiration of a sinister group of boys at his school and a girl associated with them. Set in a town riven by social and ideological tensions – an old rural culture in conflict with newcomers – this is a classic portrait of a young man struggling with the idea of identity and responsibility in an America ill at ease with itself.

Author : Melissa J. Doak
Publisher : Information Plus
ISBN 13 : 9781414407593
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up written by Melissa J. Doak and published by Information Plus. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise compilation of statistics and information about issues that affect adolescents in the United States, such as pregnancy, violence, and crime.

Author : Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019514063X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Youth Violence written by Franklin E. Zimring and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On juvenile delinquency in America

Author : Barbara Wexler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781569958063
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up written by Barbara Wexler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding America's youth.

Author : Jay P. Childers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271054115
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolving Citizen written by Jay P. Childers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines, through an analysis of seven high school newspapers, the evolution of civic and political participation among young people in the United States since 1965"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Susan Eckelmann Berghel
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820356646
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up America written by Susan Eckelmann Berghel and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself.