Editors Blog

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

The power of stories in youth mentoring

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By Jean Rhodes There’s a familiar pattern to the many mentoring…
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Can you trust the latest findings? It depends….

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by Jean Rhodes In a recent review of meta-analyses, researchers…

What we talk about when we talk about evidence

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By Jean Rhodes “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as…

Guest Contributor Niobe Way: Why we should celebrate all mentors, male and female

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by Niobe Way, Ed.D., Professor of Applied Developmental Psychology…

Using Evidence To Do the Most Good, Even When it Reveals an “Inconvenient Truth”

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By Patrick T. McCarthy (reposted W.T. Grant Foundation) Our…

How Does Mentoring Benefit Youth? Let’s Count the Ways

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by David DuBois One of the most common frustrations I…

Empathy adds “powerful, positive spark” to philanthropic giving

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Editor's Note: In a recent NYTimes opinion piece, Jamil Zaki, an…

Can apprenticeships help reduce youth unemployment?

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By Clio Chang, Century Foundation Policy Issue BriefAmerica has…

Explaining terror to children and adolescents

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by Jean Rhodes, Ph.D. The attacks in Paris raise difficult…

What is toxic stress and why does it matter for youth mentoring programs

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  By Venessa Marks and Julie Novak This blog is…