Class Dismissed: A 2009 documentary by Adam B. Ellick profiled Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl whose school was shut down by the Taliban. Ms. Yousafzai was shot by a gunman on Oct. 9.
Welcome to our latest edition of Teenagers in The Times, with articles and multimedia from October and the first week of November 2012.
We introduced this feature in July, but keep making small tweaks to improve it. This month we?ve organized the stories by topic, and decided to include the date in the headline for easy reference later. From here on, we?ll publish new installments on the first Friday of every month, so look for the next one on Dec. 7.
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World | U.S. | Politics | Technology | Health | Sports | Arts | Education
World
Teenage School Activist Survives Attack by Taliban
A Taliban gunman shot and seriously wounded a 14-year-old schoolgirl and activist in the Swat Valley in northwestern Pakistan, singling out a widely known champion of girls? education. (To find them all the articles about Malala Yousafzai, includingone about her recovery, see the Times Topics page about her.)
With Tattoos, Young Israelis Bear Holocaust Scars of Relatives
Some descendants of Holocaust survivors are having their concentration-camp numbers tattooed on their arms, a practice that provokes mixed reactions.
A Village Rape Shatters a Family, and India?s Traditional Silence
As in many countries, silence often follows rape in India, especially in villages, where a rape victim is usually regarded as a shamed woman, unfit for marriage. An outcry over a string of recent rapes has shattered that silence.
Afghan Boys Eke Living Amid Peril at Gorge
Amid the tidal wave of traffic, piercing the cacophony with their yelps and whistles, stand the Pepsi bottle boys. They earn their meager living by keeping the contractor trucks flowing on this section of the Jalalabad road, one of the main NATO supply routes to Kabul.
U.S.
After the Violence, the Rest of Their Lives
A Northwestern-led study has spent almost two decades tracking more than 1,800 youths who have gone through the juvenile justice system, mostly because of gang violence.
Silos Loom as Death Traps on American Farms (and related video).
Since 2007, 80 farmworkers have died in silo accidents; 14 of them were teenage boys.
When Mass Hysteria Convicted 5 Teenagers
A new documentary is out about the case of the five black and Hispanic teenagers who were wrongly convicted in the beating and rape of a young, white jogger in Central Park in the spring of 1989.
Cheerleaders With Bible Verses Set Off a Debate and Cheerleaders Gain Ally in Free Speech Fight
School district officials in, Kountze, Tex.ordered cheerleaders to stop putting Bible verses on banners, because they believed doing so violated the law on religious expression at public school events.
Juvenile Killers and Life Terms ? a Case in Point
When the Supreme Court in June banned mandatory life sentences without parole for those under age 18 convicted of murder, it offered rare hope to more than 2,000 juvenile offenders. But it throws the victims of those crimes into anguished turmoil at the prospect that the killers of their loved ones might walk the streets again.
Politics
If Young People Could Vote, What Would Change?
In our first-ever collaboration, The Learning Network and Room for Debate ask young people what issues teenagers under 18 would want the presidential candidates to focus on.
Technology
Campaigns Use Social Media to Lure Younger Voters
In 2012, it is not enough for candidates to shake some hands, kiss a baby or two and run some TV ads. They also need to be posting funny little animations on the blogging site Tumblr.
A New Tech Generation Defies the Odds in Japan
As Japan?s aging tech giants like Sony and Panasonic continue to falter, a new generation of Japanese technology entrepreneurs is stepping up.
Health
Helping a Child to Come Out
Some parents know, deep down inside, that a son or daughter is almost certainly gay, but hasn?t worked up the nerve to open up about it ? and many of them want to scream, ?Would you just come out, already??
Attention Disorder or Not, Pills to Help in School
Dr. Michael Anderson is one of the more outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools starved of extra money ? not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance.
Texting the Teenage Patient
Dr. Natasha Burgert, a pediatrician in Kansas City, Mo., is among a small but growing number of practitioners using social media to engage adolescents. Her patients read her blog and follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
Gift, and a Tragedy, Born of a Car Culture
It is an odd facet of modern life that while we demand helmets for 3-year-olds riding two feet above ground on their scooters, we allow children to drive before they can vote.
Teenage Bedroom as Battleground
After consultations with dozens of parents, teenagers and professionals who specialize in adolescent mess, there is some good news: although teenage tidiness may be too much to hope for, sanitation is a possibility. Better still, d?tente may be within reach. This article offers a 10-point guide to navigating that most entrenched of domestic battlegrounds.
Fewer Teenagers Are Driving After Drinking, Study Shows
The percentage of American high school students who drink and drive has dropped by more than half in two decades, in part because of tougher laws against driving under the influence of alcohol.
California Bans Therapies to ?Cure? Gay Minors
Gay rights advocates say disputed therapies to ?overcome? homosexuality have caused emotional harm to teenagers.
Sports
Rebuilding Program, and Pride of a Town
For decades there had been no reason to go see Avella High School play football other than blind, stubborn pride. But on Friday nights this fall, seemingly the entire town has followed winding roads through the rolling, green landscape to watch the team play.
A Town?s Passion for Football, a Retired Doctor?s Concern
Dr. Paul Butler created a stir when he suggested ending football at Dover High School in New Hampshire, citing evidence of the peril the sport poses to the brains of players.
Young Endurance Runners Draw Cheers and Concerns
Are two sisters, 10 and 12 years old, really capable of competing with elite athletes? And even if they are, is it a good idea for children this young to be in a race this tough?
The 22-Year-Old Retiree
When he played quarterback at Utah, before the injuries and the operations, before the sympathy and the pity, before he retired at 22, some of the best moments of Jordan Wynn?s life occurred in the end zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Arts
Chicago Hip-Hop?s Raw Burst of Change
The defining document of hip-hop?s current evolutionary state isn?t a song, or a music video or a concert. Years from now cultural archaeologists will do much better to look back over the Twitter account of the 17-year-old Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who?s been exploding, or imploding, depending on how you look at it, one short burst of text at a time.
Critic?s Notebook | This Life Isn?t Pretty for a Kid in the City
Plenty of albums are about the city, far fewer are of it. ?Wiki93? (Hot Charity/XL), the debut EP by the clever, sardonic and intense New York hip-hop crew Ratking, is in its fiber a product of the city ? not just the physical streets, but also a frame of mind and a set of experiences.
Education
No Appetite for Good-for-You School Lunches
They are high school students, and their complaint is about lunch ? healthier, smaller and more expensive than ever.
Worries Over Defense Department Money for ?Hackerspaces?
This fall, 16 high schools in California started experimental workshops that were financed by the federal government. Over the next three years, the $10 million program plans to expand to 1,000 high schools. But the money has stirred some controversy.
Admitted, but Left Out
There is no doubt that New York City?s most prestigious private schools have made great strides in diversifying their student bodies. But schools? efforts to attract minority students haven?t always been matched by efforts to truly make their experience one of inclusion, students and school administrators say.
At Technology High School, Goal Isn?t to Finish in 4 Years
The building and its surroundings in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, may look run-down, but inside 150 Albany Avenue may sit the future of the country?s vocational education: The first 230 pupils of a new style of school that weaves high school and college curriculums into a six-year program tailored for a job in the technology industry.
For Asians, school tests are vital steppingstones
No one will be surprised if Asian students, who make up 14 percent of the city?s public school students, once again win most of the seats at the city?s elite public schools, and if black and Hispanic students win few. Because of the disparity, some have begun calling for an end to the policy of using a test as the sole basis of admission to these schools.
Student?s Account Has Rape in Spotlight
A woman?s wrenching account, published in an Amherst College campus newspaper last week, of being raped in May 2011 by a fellow student and then being treated callously by college administrators, has prompted soul searching.
Source: http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/teenagers-in-the-times-october-2012/
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