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News

Web Site Engages Youth, Spurs Community Action
"YouthNoise, a Web site initially launched in 2001, re-launched last month with
the aim of encouraging youth dialogue on important social issues. The revised
site, featuring content created exclusively by young people, lets users submit
articles they've written, post to message boards on various topics, and
participate in debates. Site users (who range in age from 16 to 22) discuss
issues relating to politics, health, education, and more. Some young people
use the site as a forum to share strategies for taking action in their local
communities." It's especially interesting to the YouthLearn team to see this
development, as we partnered with YouthNoise to conduct the AT&T Young
Leaders Program a few years ago.
URL: http://www.youthnoise.com
Referred by: Children's Partnership Contentbank

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Funding

YouthRising Grant Program to Support High Risk Youth in Volunteer Service
"Youth Service America and the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention have announced the launch of the
YouthRising grant program. This opportunity offers grants of $2,000 for
organizations in the United States to engage high risk and/or gang-involved
youth (ages 12-25) in volunteer service to their communities. The program
seeks projects that are co-led by youth and adult allies such as parents,
counselors, coaches, teachers, youth leaders, etc. A significant portion of the
project must take place on National and Global Youth Service Day, April 20-22, 2007."
URL: http://www.ysa.org/awards/
Referred by: Foundation Center

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Resources

Handle With Care: An essay on teaching everyday ethics
"Most children and adolescents want to be good, but they find it very difficult.
There are many competing pressures on them, and they often feel that they
must choose between loyalty to friends and 'doing what is right,' as dictated
by parents and teachers. Children need opportunities to talk with sympathetic
adults who can help them to understand that they are not alone in their ethical
confusion and that they are not the only ones who sometimes fall short of their
own ethical ideal. The latest issue of Greater Good magazine features several
essays on the topic of 'everyday ethics,' including an essay by Nel Noddings
about how to teach children to make ethical decisions in their daily lives."
URL: http://peacecenter.berkeley.edu/SpringSummer06_Noddings.pdf
Referred by: PEN Weekly NewsBlast

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Activities

Classroom activities to teach engineering
"'TeachEngineering' provides more than 500 lessons and activities for teaching
engineering content in K-12 science and math classes. Topics include oil and
energy consumption, water and electricity, mass and volume, various energy
sources, heat transfer, solar heating systems, collisions and momentum,
electrons, cellular respiration, biomedical engineering, and more. Lessons
connect real-world experiences with concepts and skills already taught in
K-12 classrooms."
URL: http://www.teachengineering.org
Referred by: EdInfo

UNICEF Photo Contest: Inspirational women
"Have your picture featured in this year's State of the World's Children.
Submissions due 8 September 2006. This year's State of the World's Children
will argue that one of the most powerful constraints to fulfilling children's
rights and achieving the Millennium Development Goals is the discrimination
experienced by women. To help us express how important women are for the
well being of children we would like you to send us a picture of a woman in
your life -- a mother, a sister, a teacher, a friend -- who has been a particularly
powerful source of inspiration and support. The photos should include a
250-word explanation of who the woman is and how she has inspired you..."
URL: http://www.unicef.org/voy/takeaction/takeaction_2922.html
Referred by: GlobalEdNews

We welcome your feedback!

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