Editors Blog

Chronicle editor, Jean Rhodes, offers her perspectives on topics related to mentoring research, practice, and policies.

What is the “single greatest threat to children’s well-being:” And how can mentoring help?

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by Jean Rhodes "The way a problem is defined determines not…

Encouraging results: A sneak preview of a new meta-analysis on natural mentoring

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Levi Van Dam, L., Wildschut, B., Smit, D., Branje, S., Rhodes,…

Mentoring in the age of inequality

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by Jean Rhodes For the past year, I’ve been writing a book…

Five factors that explain our field’s resistance to evidence-based practice

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by Jean Rhodes Over the past few decades, considerable federal,…

Volunteer coaches as mentors: Tapping a natural resource

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Click above to listen to Mentoring U's Micheline Mann engage…
Transference: A rarely acknowledged dimension of youth mentoring relationships - Chronicle of Evidence-Based Mentoring

Transference: A rarely acknowledged dimension of youth mentoring relationships

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In a recent NYTimes magazine article, therapist Lori Gottlieb…

Why “intentional” mentoring is so important

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by Jean Rhodes I'd like to make the case make for intentional…

Elements of effective texting?: Here’s six tips

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In a recent New Yorker article, writer Alice Gregory describes Crisis Text Line, a new service for youth who are in need of support.

What’s in it for the mentor? Seinfeld (and others) explain.

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by Jean Rhodes In a classic episode of Seinfeld, a puzzled George…