Job Prospects for Urban Youth
Title | Job Prospects for Urban Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Community Council of Greater New York |
Publisher | |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1980* |
Genre | Youth |
ISBN |
Urban Youth
Title | Urban Youth PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Work Projects Administration. Division of Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Unemployed |
ISBN |
Summer Jobs for Urban Youth
Title | Summer Jobs for Urban Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Dodge Bremer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Getting Started
Title | Getting Started PDF eBook |
Author | Albert Westefeld |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | New Deal, 1933-1939 |
ISBN |
Job Strategies for Urban Youth
Title | Job Strategies for Urban Youth PDF eBook |
Author | Work in America Institute |
Publisher | Work in America Institute, Incorporated |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Minority youth |
ISBN |
Protecting Youth at Work
Title | Protecting Youth at Work PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council and Institute of Medicine |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 1998-12-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0309064139 |
In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.
Urban Youth and School Pushout
Title | Urban Youth and School Pushout PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Tuck |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2012-03-15 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1136813829 |
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award! Recent efforts to reform urban high schools have been marked by the pursuit of ever-increasing accountability policies, most notably through the use of high-stakes standardized testing, mayoral control, and secondary school exit exams. Urban Youth and School Pushout excavates the unintended consequences of such policies on secondary school completion by focusing specifically on the use and over-use of the GED credential. Building on a tradition of critical theory and political economy of education, author Eve Tuck offers a provocative analysis of how accountability tacitly and explicitly pushes out under-performing students from the system. By drawing on participatory action research, as well as the work of indigenous scholars and theories, this theoretically and empirically rich book illustrates urban public schooling as a dialectic of humiliating ironies and dangerous dignities. Focusing on the experiences of youth who have been pushed out of their schools under the auspices of obtaining a GED, Tuck reveals new insights on how urban youth view accountability schooling, value the GED, and yearn for multiple, meaningful routes to graduation.