Abandoned America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection /
Kim, Anne (Journalist),
Abandoned America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection / [electronic resource] : Anne Kim. - New York : The New Press, 2020. - 1 online resource
Embarking. Emergence and divergence -- An epidemic of disconnection -- Drifting: avenues to disconnection. Marooned: place and opportunity -- An urban opportunity desert -- When work disappears -- Abandoned by the state: "aging out" -- "Justice" -- Anchored: paths to reconnection. Throwing lifelines -- Intensive care -- Super mentors -- The apprentice and the intern -- A Texas turnaround to make schools work -- A new youth agenda. The "fierce urgency of now" -- Seven steps for ending disconnection.
A deeply affecting expose of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams. Author Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities almost nonexistent. She then describes a growing awareness including new research from the field of adolescent brain science that "emerging adulthood" is just as crucial a developmental period as early childhood, and she profiles an array of unheralded programs that provide young people with the supports they need to achieve self-sufficiency. A major work of deeply reported narrative nonfiction, Abandoned joins the small shelf of books that change the way we see our society and point to a different path forward.
9781620975688 (electronic bk.) 1620975688
EB00786490 Recorded Books
E8D9A926-D6B6-4748-9E93-484122E7A5EE OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Since 1980
Young adults--Social conditions.--United States
At-risk youth--United States.
Poor youth--Social conditions.--United States
Youth--Services for--United States.
Jeunes adultes--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Jeunes pauvres--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Jeunesse--Services--États-Unis.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General.
Poor youth--Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Youth--Services for.
Young adults--Social conditions.
At-risk youth.
Education.
United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
United States.
Electronic books.
HQ799.7 HQ799.7 / .K56 2020
305.2350973
Abandoned America's lost youth and the crisis of disconnection / [electronic resource] : Anne Kim. - New York : The New Press, 2020. - 1 online resource
Embarking. Emergence and divergence -- An epidemic of disconnection -- Drifting: avenues to disconnection. Marooned: place and opportunity -- An urban opportunity desert -- When work disappears -- Abandoned by the state: "aging out" -- "Justice" -- Anchored: paths to reconnection. Throwing lifelines -- Intensive care -- Super mentors -- The apprentice and the intern -- A Texas turnaround to make schools work -- A new youth agenda. The "fierce urgency of now" -- Seven steps for ending disconnection.
A deeply affecting expose of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams. Author Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities almost nonexistent. She then describes a growing awareness including new research from the field of adolescent brain science that "emerging adulthood" is just as crucial a developmental period as early childhood, and she profiles an array of unheralded programs that provide young people with the supports they need to achieve self-sufficiency. A major work of deeply reported narrative nonfiction, Abandoned joins the small shelf of books that change the way we see our society and point to a different path forward.
9781620975688 (electronic bk.) 1620975688
EB00786490 Recorded Books
E8D9A926-D6B6-4748-9E93-484122E7A5EE OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Since 1980
Young adults--Social conditions.--United States
At-risk youth--United States.
Poor youth--Social conditions.--United States
Youth--Services for--United States.
Jeunes adultes--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Jeunes pauvres--Conditions sociales.--États-Unis
Jeunesse--Services--États-Unis.
EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General.
Poor youth--Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Youth--Services for.
Young adults--Social conditions.
At-risk youth.
Education.
United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.
United States.
Electronic books.
HQ799.7 HQ799.7 / .K56 2020
305.2350973