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This Week’s News: Youth in Transition

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$ 1.3 million injected into County to help reduce drop-out rate
Valley News, Riverside, CA – October 1, 2010
A program to identify and help struggling high school students in Riverside County who are at risk of dropping out received a $ 1.3 million injection from the federal government, it was announced today.  The county’s Office of Education was allocated the funds under the U.S. Department of Education’s High School Graduation Initiative, which supports activities that engage troubled teens and attempt to steer them onto a productive academic course.

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Identity: Youth and Crisis (Austen Riggs Monograph)

Identity: Youth and Crisis collects Erik H. Erikson’s major essays on topics originating in the concept of the adolescent identity crisis. Identity, Erikson writes, is an unfathomable as it is all-pervasive. It deals with a process that is located both in the core of the individual and in the core of the communal culture. As the culture changes, new kinds of identity questions arise—Erikson comments, for example, on issues of social protest and changing gender roles that were particular to the 1960s.

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3v3 Leagues Offer the Best Environment for Youth Basketball Development

When looking at the best players in middle school, high school and college, what skills separate the players? If we eliminate physical attributes like height which we cannot control, and adjust for athletic skills beyond the purview of most coaches like strength, agility and quickness, what technical and tactical skills separate the best players from the average players? If I could condense the ideas into one phrase, I would say that finishing plays separate the best from the average: the best players make better decisions and more shots inside the scoring zone than average players who miss open teammates or take more contested shots.

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