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Vote 16 USA Campaign
In cities across the USA, high school students and other young adults allies have been trained and invited into Vote 16 movements as advocates for lowering the voting age to 16. In August of 2025, on the UCLA Luskin School Campus, dozens of young civic and electoral...
Teen engagement arriving and anecdotes arisingOptimal teen development meets community renaissance.( thought bubbles II)
“Where, after all, do human beings begin? In small places, so close to home and so small that they cannot be seen in any (media) image of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person. The neighborhood lived in, the school attended, the factory worked in....
Thought bubbles for Social Media campaign for my book, The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy: Orphans, Rebels and Civic Lovers Unite (Alfred H. Kurland, 7/9/2024)
“In their situation of confusion and despair, the present councils have no fixed character. It is now the hurricane months of British politics. Every day seems to have a storm of its own, and they are scudding under the bare poles of hope. Beaten but not humble,...
Redefining Beauty Standards on Adolescents in Today’s World
Photo by Nicholas Kusuma on Unsplash Over time, the youth's view of their physical appearance affected how they looked at themselves with all the beauty standards in place. Beauty standards on adolescents – is an important and timely topic that addresses...
The Youth Protecting the Environment Is a Wonderful Future
Photo by SHVETS production The youth protecting the environment is one of the best futures that our world could ever ask for, and fortunately, there are ways in which the youth can do precisely that in the present. Alfred H. Kurland, author of The Soul of Adolescence...
Teen Rebels as Alternative Story Makers and Agents of Change
Photo by Edmond Dantès In my book, the Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy, I discuss how the assets of adolescent nature align with the demanding work of reforming the deficiencies inherent in our governance. I cite examples of how our generation...
Power in the Hands of the People: What Democracy Means
The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy by Alfred H. Kurland is a brilliant piece of advocacy for power in the hands of the people. The Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy by Alfred H. Kurland is a sober and compelling...
Youth Empowerment Through Social-Emotional Learning
Photo by Jed Villejo on Unsplash Academics build successful adults. But it’s in social-emotional learning that the youths learn to be better and thriving humans. This is what true youth empowerment is. What good are mathematic equations when people aren’t decent...
Lower the Voting Age to 16: A Rite of Passage, and a Civic Right
Photo by Max Fischer In the Afterwards for my book, the Soul of Adolescence Aligns with the Heart of Democracy, I open this chapter with the following words: ‘ Emergent narratives and interjoined civic relationships are being born and nurtured in the transition to a...
The Prevalence of Social Media and the Youth
Photo by Michael Burrows The youth have the power to shape society’s influence however they want to, whether positively or negatively. But in the prevalence of social media and its seemingly unobtrusive effects, how will they fare? The youth is society’s future....
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