"Delinquent. Dropout. At-Risk. When Words Become Labels"

"The nomenclature has fluctuated widely over the decades. And each generation's preferred term is packed with assumptions— economic, social, cultural, and educational — about the best way to frame the issue. Essentially, each name contains an argument about who's at fault, and where to find solutions...
To delve deeper into just how much the taxonomy has changed, I used Google's Ngram Viewer tool to track mentions of some of the most popular phrases in published books."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/04/28/399949478/delinquent-dropout-at-risk-whats-in-a-name?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150428

It's great to see the kind of investigation that is being inspired by the protests (and here, I obviously point to the poorly-reported-on marches and rallies in Baltimore and organised around the country to spread information and galvanize people who want to help make a difference).

Of course Princeton was associated with one of the negative constructs. Such a messy history.

And "opportunity youth" is interesting - kinda patronising, still focusing on how they can improve society and not how they can find an improved society that works for them, but definitely the kind of thing that will help privileged people who don't know any black kids feel actual empathy and less fear.