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Career Ladder - Helping Inner City Youth Through School to Careers by Daniel F. Bassill
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Terry Elliott on 13 Dec 15I am reading Henry Jenkins, et al's latest book, Participatory Culture. Everything I see here fits what I have read so far. And also asks the question: how do we get youth to participate in this particular culture--the one that moves them through poverty and into careers. I will have to make this one of the core questions as I read Participatory Culture.
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"What Will it Take to Assure that all Youth Born or Living in High Poverty are Starting Jobs and Careers by Age 25?"
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the ideas exchanged by participants, and the relationships created, are as important as the learning that takes place.
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Last night the hangout focused on a platform called Youth Voices, where youth from around the country are connecting and sharing ideas and reflections.
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I found one under the topic of "How Can We Reduce Costs and Still Get the Care We Need?"
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A valuable tool. Here is a quick response: https://farm1.staticflickr.com/741/23114808664_5298e18c36_b.jpg
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They could be learning many new skills and habits (see article about passionate employee).
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This has always been an issue in education--where is the best leverage for improving learning? where the best place to use any resource to get the most value? Is this too narrow a way of looking at the problem? too bottom line? Seems to value "cost" efficiency over all other values? So...do we need to be putting our magic into tutors/mentors and teachers or into learner/employees?
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This process could engage youth in thousands of locations, focusing on many complex problems, not just health care or poverty.
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I have always been for the idea that learners need to be more responsible for their own learning. They should begin to be responsible for the problems they generate in their own lives and the ones they see generated around them. It is the distribution of these problems and the relative inequity of this distribution that is most troubling. Those who have the greatest opportunity to face the most difficulty problems are also those who are given the least resources to deal with them. How fair is it to ask children to deal with the large issues of safety, health care, and poverty around them?
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