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December 1999/January 2000 | Volume 57 | Number 4

Understanding Youth Culture


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Perspectives / Generation 2K

Marge Scherer

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Generation What? Connecting with Today's Youth

Carol Tell

Technology? Consumerism? Secrecy? What distinguishes the Y2K kids from their predecessors?

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Raising Better Boys

Geoffrey Canada

From random violence to persistent media messages about masculinity, boys today confront challenges that their fathers did not face.

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Listening to—and Learning from—Girls

Nan Stein

A chorus of voices tells us that categorizing “grrls” of today is not that easy.

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The Ambitious Generation

Barbara Schneider and David Stevenson

What will happen if the job opportunities of the future do not mesh with the expectations of young people?

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The Changing Sports Scene

Karen Rasmussen

More organized than ever before and open to more students, sports can have profound effects on the identity and social status of participants.

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Initiation—Saying Good-Bye to Childhood

Rachael Kessler

Through establishing transition rituals, we can ease the rough passage of adolescents who are moving toward adulthood.

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My Voice: An Advocacy Approach to Service Learning

Barbara L. Dundon

When students select their own service projects, they experience the rewards of meaningful activism.

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Cut and Paste 101: Plagiarism and the Net

Lisa Renard

A field guide to Internet cheating—or how to detect when your students have helped themselves to “source” material.

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Nurturing Nonconformists

Margaret Wallace

Those on the margins have much to offer the mainstream.

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The Evil Joker

Michelle Wagner, Carla Knudsen and Victoria Harper

Open discussion helps students examine the dangers of gangs.

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Contemporary Issue: Bilingual Education

The Benefits of English Immersion

Rosalie Pedalino Porter

The California requirement for an English language program shows the way for other states to boost achievement of students.

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How the Reform Agenda Shortchanges English Learners

María S. Quezada, Terrence G. Wiley and J. David Ramirez

Efforts to teach literacy require diverse approaches that consider language and culture.

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The Illiteracy of English-Only Literacy

Donaldo Macedo

Those who espouse English-Only obliterate the issues of poverty, race, and class.

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Special Topics

Special Topic / Children of Mixed Race—No Longer Invisible

Francis Wardle

From revising school forms to reviewing the curriculum for inclusiveness, how to make school more welcoming to multiracial children.

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Special Topic / City Play

Amanda Dargan and Steve Zeitlin

The quality of playfulness must be cared for, protected, and nurtured.

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Special Topic / Why Common Ground Thinking Works

Wayne Jacobsen

Guidelines for discussing controversy with civility, for schools and communities.

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Voices: The Principal / It's Never Too Late

Jon Drescher

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Themes for Educational Leadership 2000–2001

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Research Link / Extracurricular Activities: The Path to Academic Success?

John H. Holloway

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Karen Rasmussen

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