Information is power, and has always been used by the powerless to help their situation. NYRA knows this and is opening its collection of materials for the use of its members and all visitors who wish to learn more about Youth Rights. NYRA does not necessarily condone or endorse the opinion expressed herein, but please read this to educate yourself on these various issues. Feel free to use information contained here in research papers, just remember to cite it properly. Be sure to send us a copy of any Youth Rights research you are doing too!
Key pages on NYRA’s website:
- What Are Youth Rights
- “Young and Oppressed”
- Top Ten Reasons to Lower the Voting Age
- A Brief Overview of the Problems of Teen Brain Science
- The Troubled Teen Industry
- Student Rights
- Age Discrimination
- Activist Toolkit
- Youth Rights Poetry
- “This is not a poetry circle. This is a movement.”
Other Websites
- Peer Unschooling Network
- Alliance for Self-Directed Education
- Alternatives to School
- Freechild Institute
Books/Zines
- Raising Free People (Akilah S. Richards)
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook (Grace Llewellyn)
- Teen 2.0 (Robert Epstein)
- Escape From Childhood (John Holt)
- NO! Against Adult Supremacy (various authors)
- Thank You For Being Young(Andrew Lerner)
- Schools on Trial (Nikhil Goyal)
