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Publications by Network members
For an index to all publications on the site, go here
A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo
Freshmen in a “learning community” at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses, and earned more credits in their first semester than students in a control group. Two years later, they were also somewhat more likely to be enrolled in college.
Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners:
Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
MDRC (
Network member
Gordon Berlin is president of MDRC) recently released early results from its study of a transitional jobs program for ex-prisoners (many of whom are young adults). Short-term results are encouraging
Private Anxieties and Public Hopes: The Perils and Promise of Youth in the Context of Globalization (posted Feb 2008; forthcoming 2008)
Constance A. Flanagan
This chapter argues that there are psychological costs in anxiety and self-doubt for individuals who imagine only private solutions to the uncertainties that global capital and the privatization of risk have normalized. The second part of the paper presents an alternative narrative in which activist youth are making public and political the private anxieties they share, challenging a world organized on market principles, and seeking a fuller sense of character than jobs alone can furnish.
Youth Political Activism: Sources of Public Hope in the Context of Globalization (posted Feb 2008; published 2007)
Constance Flanagan, Laura Wray-Lake, and Amy Syvertsten
The Positive Youth Development Movement, the authors argue, should take a political turn and engage youth in agitating for redress of the family, institutional, and societal inequities among youth.
School and Community Climates and Civic Commitments: Patterns for Ethnic Minority and Majority Students (posted Feb 2008, published 2007)
Constance Flanagan, Cumsille, Gill, and Gallay
Regardless of their racial/ethnic background, adolescents (average age 15) were more likely to believe that America is a just society and to endorse civic goals if they felt that their teachers were fair to and respected students and if they felt that, in general, residents of their communities pitched in to make them good places to live. The behaviors of adults in those settings communicate to the younger generation what it means to be part of the body politic and to what extent principles of inclusion, fairness, and justice figure in that process. Finally, regardless of their ethnic background, youth were more committed to the kinds of public interest goals that sustain a democratic polity (serving their country, helping people in need, and working to improve race relations) when they felt their teachers were respectful of and fair to all students and insisted on students respecting one another.
Pushing the Envelope on Youth Civic Engagement:
A Developmental and Liberation Psychology
Perspective (posted Feb 2008; published 2007)
Roderick J. Watts and Constance Flanagan
The authors call for more attention in the research on youth civic engagement and political participation to liberation psychology. The latter differs from conventional U.S. psychology in its emphasis on human rights and social equity. Although there is certainly value in the current civic engagement literature, much of it focuses on the maintenance of social and political institutions rather than on action for social justice. To promote a better balance, and one more relevant to the lives of youth of color and other marginalized young people, we offer a framework for empirical research on youth sociopolitical development
Public Scholarship and Youth at the
Transition to Adulthood (posted Feb 2008; published 2006)
Constance Flanagan
Universities are one of the main institutions charged with guiding younger generations as they make the transition to adulthood. In light of the profound social and economic changes younger generations face, and the considerable uncertainty and flux on the path to adulthood, it behooves universities to spend more time inculcating a sense of public responsibility and connectedness in youth. The university, Flanagan argues, can be more than just a place to earn a credential. It can be a place where public scholarship is honed and the values of community and civic responsibility are instilled. This in turn can benefit both the individual and the society. As Tocqueville warned, “If people forget themselves in the sole faculty of making money . . . the future of the republic will be bleak and tyranny will not be far away.”
Activist Program: Reframing Social Responsibility Within a Technology-Based Youth (posted Feb 2008, published 2007)
Carmen Hamilton and Constance Flanagan
This study explores the transformation process in a youth group’s conception of itself and its role in assuming responsibility for curbing drinking, smoking, and drug use in the community. In a 6-week summer program, teens created a video that encouraged peers to shift from a view that “it’s none of my business” to an ethic of social responsibility for one another. Over the course of the project, the youth came to see drug and alcohol use as a community issue, not just an individual problem. They developed a sense of ownership toward the issue of peer intervention, which in turn motivated them to take the topic more seriously. They developed a greater appreciation that more practical strategies for intervening were needed. The youth saw themselves as community actors who could assume responsibility for a community issue.
Young People’s Civic Engagement and Political Development (posted Feb 2008; forthcoming 2008)
Constance Flanagan
This chapter in the International Handbook on Youth and Young Adulthood (Routledge 2008) provides a broad overview of youth civic engagement.
Service as a Developmental Opportunity: Building Connections for Vulnerable Youths (posted Feb 2008, published 2007)
Andrea K. Finlay, Constance Flanagan, and Sarah Black
This article by the National Youth Leadership Council addresses whether engagement in service may have beneficial effects that would better facilitate the transition to adulthood among marginalized and vulnerable young adults.
Special issue of Applied Developmental Science (forthcoming 2008), on immigrant youths' civic participation, co-edited by Network member Constance Flanagan and Lene Jensen Arnett.
Overview (overview by Flanagan and Arnett )
The following are select commentary by Network members and an overview of civic engagement by Peter Levine
Reaping What You Sow: Immigration, Youth, and Reactive Ethnicity ( Rubén Rumbaut)
The Challenge of Studying Civic Incorporation (Mary Waters )
The Civic Engagement of Young Americans: Why Does It Matter?
(Peter Levine )
Special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies (vol. 28, no. 6, Nov. 2005), co-edited by Network member Rubén Rumbaut with Alejandro Portes, on children of immigrants.
Table of contents (overview of entire issue with links to journal)
The following are select articles from the issue with special relevance to the transition to adutlhood
Introduction: The Second Generation and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (Alejandro Portes and Rubén Rumbaut)
Turning Points in the Transition to Adulthood (Rubén Rumbaut)
Gendered Paths: Educational and Occupational Expectations and Outcomes among Adult Children of Immigrants
(Cynthia Feliciano & Rubén Rumbaut)
The Multifaceted American Experiences of the Children of Asian Immigrants (Min Zhou and Yang Sao Xiong)
The
Second Generation in Early Adulthood: New Findings from the Children
of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (October 2006)
Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes
Rumbaut and Portes examine how the second generation of immigrants in South Florida and Southern California is faring as they navigate early adulthood. By and large, they find, members of the new second generation are doing well. However, a sizable segment — a minority found mostly among the children of Mexican, Haitian, and West Indian immigrants —risks being left behind. See
also the Network brief on this topic
Growing Up Healthy: Are Adolescents the Right Target Group? (2006)
Frank Furstenberg
Editorial published in the Journal of Adolescent Health
Growing
Up Is Harder to Do (2004)
Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sheela Kennedy, Vonnie C. McLoyd, Rubén
G. Rumbaut and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.,
Contexts, vol 3, no. 3,
2004
In the past several decades, a new life stage has emerged: early adulthood.
No longer adolescents, but not yet ready to assume the full responsibilities
of an adult, many young people are caught between needing to learn advanced
job skills and depending on their family to support them during the transition.
Securing
the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College (June 2000)
Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel, editors
More than ever, the economic health of a country depends upon the skills, knowledge, and capacities of its people. How does a person acquire these human assets and how can we promote their development? Securing the Future assembles an interdisciplinary team of scholars to investigate the full range of factors--pediatric, psychological, social, and economic--that bear on a child's development into a well-adjusted, economically productive member of society
Does
College Still Pay? (2005)
The Economists’ Voice
Lisa Barrow and Network member
Cecilia Elena Rouse
Article examines the costs and benefits of college.
Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies
of the New Second Generation (2004)
Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters, Russell Sage
In Becoming New Yorkers, noted social scientists Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary Waters bring together in-depth ethnographies of some of New York’s largest immigrant populations to assess the experience of the new second generation and to explore the ways in which they are changing the fabric of American culture.
Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia (2005)
Constance Flanagan and Ron Kassimir, editors, Greenwood Press
Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties (2004)
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett,. Oxford University Press
Book review by Frank Furstenberg
Washington Post, Tuesday, October 5, 2004; Page C02
Conference Report: Adolescence
and the Transition to Adulthood: Rethinking Public Policy for a New Century
(February 2005)
[View PDF]
Opening Doors, a project headed
by MDRC in collaboration with the Network, examines factors that affect low-income
students’ college enrollment and completion:
A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio (2007)
Enhancing Student Services at Lorain County Community College (2007)
Enhancing Student Services at Owens Community College (2007)
Whole ’Nother World:
Students Navigating Community College (2006)
Understanding
and Facilitating the Youth Mentoring Movement. Social Policy Report (2006)
Students' Perspectives on Juggling
Work, Family, and College (July 2002)
Building
Learning Communities: Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration
at Kingsborough Community College (June 2005)
Promoting
Student Success in Community College and Beyond (June 2005)
In the News
Annenberg Classroom: Resources for America's Teachers
Ask the Expert: Educating the Public--Why Teachers Matter
May 2007
Network member Constance Flanagan discusses the important role of teachers and the education system in instilling the importance of public service in today's youth.
Frank Stasio, NPR
Interview with Network member Constance Flanagan and others discussing civic involvement
Tuesday, January 16 2007
From sit-ins at lunch counters in the 1960s South to the 1976 mass protests by school children in Soweto for better education, youth activism movements have effectively shaped history. Host Frank Stasio talks about how and why today's youth are getting involved in social issues with Constance Flanagan and Ron Kassimir, co-editors of "Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia" (Greenwood Press/2005). He also catches up with some local activists, who are taking unique approaches to getting their voices heard.
The Inconvenient Truth about Youth
Washington Post, op-ed. September 11, 2006
Reseeding Rural America
Op-Ed, Des Moines Register, August 6, 2005
As Americans, we'd like to think that where or to whom you're born is only a temporary status
Op-ed, St. Paul Pioneer Press, July 20, 2005
Grow Up? Not So Fast
Meet the Twixters. They’re Not Kids Anymore, but They’re Not Adults Either…
Lev Grossman
Time Magazine, January 24, 2005
[accompanying poll]
Mixed Messages on Marriage
Frank Furstenberg
AScribe Newswire, March 8, 2004
The parent trap: boomerang kids
When 20-somethings come home, families need some frank talk about finances to stay within budget
USNews.com, December 12, 2005
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