{"id":209,"date":"2009-02-08T23:23:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=209"},"modified":"2009-02-08T23:23:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T06:23:06","slug":"%e2%80%9cwe-youth-are-too-strong-to-be-stopped%e2%80%9d-why-we-cant-get-it-right-listening-to-the-youth-civic-education-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theamericancrawl.com\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Youth Are Too Strong to be Stopped\u201d (Why We Can’t Get it Right: Listening to the Youth & Civic Education Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0I spent my Friday evening learning. I gained insight about problems within my school, ways these problems could be addressed, and how teachers can improve their instruction. This information was informed by a broad spectrum of graduate level theoretical texts and significant research was conducted; both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The researchers spoke eloquently and answered questions from leaders within Los Angeles\u2019 educational community. These researchers were a group of brilliant 11th<\/sup> graders at five high schools throughout the city, including Manual Arts.<\/p>\n

The Council of Youth Research, put together through UCLA\u2019s IDEA<\/a>, spent the past seven months investigating their research question: What form of teaching and learning do Los Angeles\u2019 youth need to become powerful civic agents?<\/p>\n

The students integrated heady academic texts into their presentations. They explained the ideas presented by writers like Freire, Jean Anyon, and Angela Valenzuela. They explained why what they were doing is a kind of \u201ctransformational resistance.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Based on teacher interviews and teacher surveys, it became clear that \u2013 generally:<\/p>\n