You don't have to call yourself a mentor to pass it on...In this inspiring book of interviews and photographs, youth honor the ordinary adults who reach out to them in everyday but extraordinary ways. Their national Mentors that Matter project shows the profound effects on both teenagers and adults when all kinds of people not just parents and teachers take the time to connect, converse, and care about young people. ''We always say, 'We don't have time for this,' but I think sometimes in a black community we don't take hold of time. Every minute something is being made, even when we are enjoying relationships. There is so much we have to get to young people, before they get to a certain age always challenging, always pushing yourself to push that kid. So that kid sees that with hard work there are things you can strive on. The obstacles don't stop and once you overcome one, there's always going to be another one.''--ERIC MORRIS, basketball cvoach and mentor, Chicago, Illinois

Pass It On: Interviews by Youth with Mentors That Matter

Students of What Kids Can Do

Next Generation Press

What jobs await them? Will their cultural traditions thrive, or fade away? How is family life changing in a round-the-clock globalized era? A new book gives compelling and colorful answers in the form of a 94-page photo-essay created by students from New Delhi and Bangalore. India in a Time of Globalization was produced by What Kids Can Do, Inc. with support from Adobe Systems, Inc. as part of its international initiative, Adobe Youth Voices With tape recorders and cameras, the young photo-journalists went into their communities looking for evidence of how their world is changing. They interviewed auto-rickshaw drivers and scientists, call center workers and business professionals, finding the stories behind the economic data of India's recent transformation. Most were holding a camera for the first time as they snapped stunning digital color photographs of people and scenes in streets, parks, markets, and the workplace. In Bangalore, eleven students from the Government High School at Cotton Pet joined the project as photographers; most were between 11 and 14 and came from a slumdwellers neighborhood. Thirteen students in their mid-teens, from the Noida Public Senior Secondary School, also recorded and transcribed interviews, learning much about journalism as they approached people in all walks of life. In New Delhi, seven students from the Child Rights Information Centre of Bal Panchayat documented the challenges facing children and families, through photographs and research. Students and their teachers worked closely with a photographer and an editor who visited all three sites from What Kids Can Do (WKCD), a U.S. nonprofit organization documenting powerful learning with public purpose by youth around the world. WKCD also wrote the captions that accompany the students photographs, combining journalistic research with quotes from interviews by students. 'It seems fitting and important to enlist the next generation as social documenters of a changing India in this time of rapid globalization,' commented Naresh Gupta, managing director of Adobe India, in the book s introduction. They come with an open mind and fresh opinions and this is the world they are inheriting. Many of the youthful participants spoke of how much they learned from the project. We are a country of contradictions, said one student from New Delhi. 'We are the world's oldest democracy, but we are divided by caste. We are one of the world's fastest growing economies, but one of its poorest. We are filled with national pride, but see so much that needs correction.' Barbara Cervone, the book's editor and the president of What Kids Can Do, Inc., also noted the eagerness and fresh vision of the young photographers, who snapped more than 5,000 images in the course of the project.

India in a Time of Globalization: A Photo Essay by Indian Youth

Arts & Photography

Youth in Bangalore

New Delhi

and Noida India

Photography & Video

<p>Get out your Number 2 pencils! What do inner-city teenagers know that the rest of us may not? What can they do that others might find daunting? What can we all learn, from thinking through the issues that confront urban youth at school and in their neighborhoods? SAT Bronx aims to find out, by framing the words and experiences of fourteen Bronx high school students in the form of standardized test passages. To answer its multiple-choice questions (co-constructed with two of the students teachers and with Kathleen Cushman of What Kids Can Do), one must analyze complex matters of culture, language, behavior, even governmental policy. On this test, the only way to get the right answers is to pay close attention to the words, experiences, and perspectives of its young co-authors. Taking SAT Bronx opens important conversations about multiculturalism and equity, knowledge and skills, and the assumptions that underlie our thinking about urban youth. Discussion questions for both youth and adults follow each section. SAT Bronx developed as a collaborative project of What Kids Can Do, Inc. with generous support from Adobe Youth Voices, a global network of educators and youth who share their ideas, concerns, and aspirations using Adobe's media tools.</p>

SAT Bronx: Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know?

Kathleen Cushman

Students from Bronx Leadership Academy 2

Shannon O'Grady

Kristin Ferrales

Fresh Takes on a Flat World

Ed. D. Barbara Cervone

Crisis and Hope

Art and Life in Rural Japan (Toho Village Through the Eyes of Its youth)

Queer Youth Advice for Educators: How to Respect and Protect Your LGBTQ Students

Abe Louise Young

<p>NOTE: Twenty percent of the proceeds from In Our Village: Boto, Ethiopia Through the Eyes of Its Youth will fund scholarships for Boto youth to attend secondary school.</p>

In Our Village: Boto, Ethiopia Through the Eyes of Its Youth

Barbara Cervone

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