Karen Pittman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Pittman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittman |
| SIGNATURE | PITTMAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Youth Policy Forum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Promise of Building Equitable Ecosystems for Learning
Children and youth learn across settings; however, U.S. educational practice and policy frequently equates learning with formal schooling. This perspective overlooks the growth in structured out-of-school learning programs and the opportunities they provide for addressing educational inequities for marginalized students. In this article, we link the literatures on out-of-school time and educator expertise with historical and contemporary understa…
Unusual Suspects
BACKGROUND: Individuals learn and develop across their lifespan in response to the people with whom they interact in settings, communities, cultures, and experiences. Collaborative research and policy efforts underscore the critical and reparative role of identity-safe, culturally driven, and relationship-rich environments-in classrooms, schools, and communities-for the healthy social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of all learner…
Youth Development as a “Big Picture” Public Health Strategy
In Brief This Commentary explains how youth development principles inform visioning, planning, constituency building, decision making, training, assessment, program development, policy design, and implementation efforts
Social Policy Supports for Adolescence in the Twenty‐First Century
Worldwide changes are altering the conditions under which adolescents prepare for adulthood and are increasing the need for thoughtful, tailored, youth policies and programs. This article offers a set of “framing questions” aimed at helping countries and communities create policies that are adapted to the particulars of a given context. These questions are presented as a means for policy makers, advocates, practitioners, researchers, community me…
Testing the Social Safety Net
This study assesses the effects of cutbacks in social welfare spending on three populations: abused, neglected, and dependent children; the chronically mentally ill; and low-income elderly. The authors trace the impacts of federal changes through state and local levels to the service agencies and the needy themselves
Social Policy Supports for Adolescence in the Twenty‐First Century
Worldwide changes are altering the conditions under which adolescents prepare for adulthood and are increasing the need for thoughtful, tailored, youth policies and programs. This article offers a set of “framing questions” aimed at helping countries and communities create policies that are adapted to the particulars of a given context. These questions are presented as a means for policy makers, advocates, practitioners, researchers, community me…
The Promise of Building Equitable Ecosystems for Learning
Children and youth learn across settings; however, U.S. educational practice and policy frequently equates learning with formal schooling. This perspective overlooks the growth in structured out-of-school learning programs and the opportunities they provide for addressing educational inequities for marginalized students. In this article, we link the literatures on out-of-school time and educator expertise with historical and contemporary understa…
Youth Development as a “Big Picture” Public Health Strategy
In Brief This Commentary explains how youth development principles inform visioning, planning, constituency building, decision making, training, assessment, program development, policy design, and implementation efforts
Testing the Social Safety Net
This study assesses the effects of cutbacks in social welfare spending on three populations: abused, neglected, and dependent children; the chronically mentally ill; and low-income elderly. The authors trace the impacts of federal changes through state and local levels to the service agencies and the needy themselves
Social Policy Supports for Adolescence in the Twenty‐First Century
Worldwide changes are altering the conditions under which adolescents prepare for adulthood and are increasing the need for thoughtful, tailored, youth policies and programs. This article offers a set of “framing questions” aimed at helping countries and communities create policies that are adapted to the particulars of a given context. These questions are presented as a means for policy makers, advocates, practitioners, researchers, community me…
Youth Development as a “Big Picture” Public Health Strategy
In Brief This Commentary explains how youth development principles inform visioning, planning, constituency building, decision making, training, assessment, program development, policy design, and implementation efforts
Unusual Suspects
BACKGROUND: Individuals learn and develop across their lifespan in response to the people with whom they interact in settings, communities, cultures, and experiences. Collaborative research and policy efforts underscore the critical and reparative role of identity-safe, culturally driven, and relationship-rich environments-in classrooms, schools, and communities-for the healthy social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of all learner…
The Promise of Building Equitable Ecosystems for Learning
Children and youth learn across settings; however, U.S. educational practice and policy frequently equates learning with formal schooling. This perspective overlooks the growth in structured out-of-school learning programs and the opportunities they provide for addressing educational inequities for marginalized students. In this article, we link the literatures on out-of-school time and educator expertise with historical and contemporary understa…
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Administration (probate law (1 work) · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Critical Race Theory in Education (1 work) · Data science (1 work)