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		<title>Living Up to Our Responsibilities as Adults</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Resources matter. They matter. What it takes to build strong, successful young people isn’t genetics or pedigree or good luck, it’s opportunity. And I know from my own experience. I started out with exactly the same aptitude, exactly the same intellectual, emotional capabilities as so many of my peers. And the only thing that separated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something We&#8217;ve Always Known: Race Matters</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I came across a disturbing study, Race and the Fragility of the Legal Distinction between Juveniles and Adults, that supports a suspicion and fear juvenile justice advocates have expressed for some time: youth of color are judged more harshly and viewed with more fear than white youth when it comes to the criminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Under-Reaction to Schools&#8217; Over-Reaction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Principal Alvin Dailey of LeFlore Magnet High School in Mobile, Alabama formally suspended approximately 100 kids for two days.  Their offense?  Dress code violations. In short, these kids were suspended for wearing the wrong colored shirts or socks and saggy pants. I could talk about how that decision contradicts evidence-based and common sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Reality Check on Newtown: We Must Move Forward, Not Back&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, like most Americans, watched in horror as the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School unfurled last December. As a former elementary school teacher, I could not stop seeing my former students as possible victims, and I was angry, confused, and eager for change to prevent another incident like this one. Since the shooting, there’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Approach to Police in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in December was a tragedy and no one can deny that it has changed the way we look at school, violence, mental health, and a host of other issues. It has also changed the fight for those of us who work in the juvenile justice policy world. Suddenly, we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An estimated 40% of Americans make New Year’s resolutions every year. I will admit that though I never seem to keep them past the end of January, I usually end up making a few. The beginning of a new year seems like the tidiest time to tell ourselves that we will do better, be better, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Childhood</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without using this tragedy as an excuse to discuss policy or to call for change, I will simply say that what happened in Connecticut on December 14th was a jarring reminder of how precious our children are and how easily their innocence is lost. It is a lesson those of us who work in juvenile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Super Predator Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attention garnered in the media by violent crimes often leads to the misconception that children are committing more serious crimes than they did in the past, are committing crimes earlier, and that generally, youth can no longer be controlled and need a heavy-handed approach in order to protect society. In the 1990s, this faulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Children to Monsters in the Public Eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my years as a child and youth advocate, I have learned that most people agree in theory that all children are entitled to the opportunity to grow up and to be healthy and happy adults.  Most people at least pretend to believe that kids have a fundamental right to a childhood as described in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common Sense Applied to Crime and Punishment for Youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AYJA Staff Last week, I read an article about a woman whose son had been accidently killed by one of his friends. The circumstances surrounding his death were tragic. The shooting was clearly accidental, the two boys were best friends, and everyone involved agreed that the real culprit was the adult responsible for putting [...]]]></description>
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