Category: publicity
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Free Book: Engaging the Whole Child
After all this work I’ve done in the inter-related, yet disparate topics related to the roles of young people throughout society, I believe I have come to deeply understand the nature of needing to engage the whole young person. I’ve written about it, trained on it, and helped many other people understand this concept in […]
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Giving Youth Life Sentences: Efren Paredes, Jr.
Efren Paredes, Jr. was a 16-year-old Latino honors student in southwest Michigan, not far from Chicago, when he was convicted of armed robbery and first degree murder for the shooting death of grocery store manager Rick Tetzlaff. He was found guilty and sentenced to multiple life terms. He is among the 300 people in the […]
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Evolving Roles for Young People
“Education should not be the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a flame.”– William Butler Yates In the early 1800s it was common for non-enslaved Blacks in the United States to take the last name “Freeman” as a testimony to their freedom. Since that time young people have become bound by the ongoing […]
Adam F.C. Fletcher 