Many teachers say they're afraid to teach these topics in these sharply divided times.

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Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez serves as executive director of NextGen America.

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Shaking President Clinton’s hand, “It just struck me, like, this is just another dude.”

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Are America’s public schools preparing students to engage in the responsibilities of citizenship?

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Tackling the root causes of disconnection from education and careers with systems-involved youth.

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The approach simultaneously educates students on climate change and reduces the campus carbon footprint.

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The nation’s citizenship woes grow more consequential as people’s faith in democracy itself falters.

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A practical guide for organizations supporting young people in their transition to the workplace.

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Rachel Solomon, 18, was the winner of a youth entrepreneurs pitch fest this fall.

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Sylvia Smith found her true passion in goats at age 12.

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Some of today’s freedom schools enroll only Black youth, others a "racial rainbow."

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The Democrat-controlled state Legislature overrode the Republican governor's veto of the Brattleboro charter change.

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The lack of volunteers strains the safety net that nonprofits provide to the vulnerable.

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Holly Whitfield begins work immediately leading the Savannah youth arts and leadership nonprofit.

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17 out-of-school time professionals from across the country were chosen.

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Across the country, young people are banding together to undertake surveys and create heat maps that capture their communities’ desire to mitigate and adapt to rising temperatures, which is helping to ensure that interventions are community-led rather than implemented top-down.

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Last August, teachers and other school staff at Cypress Bay joined what the surgeon’s group says are more than 2.4 million people who have completed that training. Among them is Paul Gorlick, a social sciences teacher and advisor to Cypress Bay’s Make Our Schools Safe chapter, which Freeland, a senior, launched.

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Emergency wound management such as that taught through the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed program, its proponents say, offers gun-injured individuals a better shot at survival.

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Student groups argue that damage to the environment and human health inflicted by the fossil fuel industry conflicts with the schools’ missions to care for their students and future generations. The groups are working with lawyers at the Climate Defense Project to bring legal complaints against their schools’ respective investment funds. 

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Climate change is a galvanizing force for young people whose lives are being radically altered by storms, wildfires, drought, heat waves and other effects of manmade global warming.

In this ongoing series, Youth Today explores how a generation is adapting to these dramatic shifts while fighting for their future. 

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