Children and Youth

The Promotion of Social Awareness

Dec 17, 2004 | Book Talk, Children, The Children

When picked on, some children choose to fight and others choose to walk away. What accounts for these different responses? This is just one of the many questions that Robert Selman, an…

Latinos and School Reform

Dec 17, 2004 | Culture and Education, The Children

Ricardo stood shocked. His teacher was telling him, “You should drop out of school and go back to the Dominican Republic because immigrants are taking American tax dollars.” An 11th-grade…

Journey of Remembrance

Dec 17, 2004 | Culture and Education, The Children

The Spanish-speaking immigrant children in northern Virginia busily draw what home looked like. Their vivid drawings give us a sense of the environment with which they feel comfortable, a…

Fostering Child Wellbeing

Dec 17, 2004 | Health and Community, The Children

Children sleep and work on the streets of many countries in the Western Hemisphere. They die too young. Injuries to children—whether intentional or not—exceed those in much of the rest of…

Collaborating with Amigos del Aprendizaje

Dec 17, 2004 | Culture and Education, The Children

Three out of every 10 children that enroll in school in Costa Rica will drop out before completing primary school. Moreover, only two of those remaining seven children will graduate…

Theme: Children and Youth

The Promotion of Social Awareness

Latinos and School Reform

Journey of Remembrance

Fostering Child Wellbeing

Collaborating with Amigos del Aprendizaje