{"id":315,"date":"2015-10-28T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=315"},"modified":"2015-10-08T05:14:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T05:14:55","slug":"delinquent-dropout-at-risk-when-words-become-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/10\/28\/delinquent-dropout-at-risk-when-words-become-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Delinquent. Dropout. At-Risk. When Words Become Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2015\/04\/27\/bla037bd_slide-ae74d1b9ea1eadf2d819e13484fe9c1f3e2dcf3e-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sidney Poitier (right) and Glenn Ford (standing) in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>Much of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/ed\/2015\/04\/18\/393849058\/in-new-orleans-young-lives-adrift\">recent reporting<\/a>, especially from New Orleans, has focused on young people who are neither in school nor working. There are an estimated 5 1\/2 million of them, ages 16 to 24, in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But what do we call them?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And does the nomenclature matter?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2015\/04\/28\/399949478\/delinquent-dropout-at-risk-whats-in-a-name\">Click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of our recent reporting, especially from New Orleans, has focused on young people who are neither in school nor working. There are an estimated 5 1\/2 million of them, ages 16 to 24, in the United States. But what do we call them? And does the nomenclature matter? Click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,21,46,27,81,55,57,4,65,74],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-african-americans","tag-american-history","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-language","tag-minorities","tag-poc","tag-race","tag-racial-identity","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}