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Kids Gets Ticketed

No, not the girl who got a ticket from the local health department for running a lemonade stand.  I’m referring to youth in Portland, ME, who can receive a ticket for doing something good.  According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, the Portland’s Public Health Division and Police Department are collaborating on a program [...]

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Quote of the week

“We’ve spent years working on ways to restructure schools, but what matters most is the relationship between one student and one teacher. You ask a kid who has graduated from high school to list the teachers who mattered in his life, and he will reel off names. You ask a kid who dropped out, and [...]

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3 Cheers for 4-H

Holy Cow!  The National 4-H Council issued a great PYD-related report back in May and it is just now making its way across my desk.  The report, entitled The Positive Development of Youth: Findings from the First Four Years of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, was written by Richard Lerner and his colleagues [...]

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