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”
- Principles of Anti-Ageism
- 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
- Raising Free People
- Untigering
- Parenting Decolonized
- Stimpunks
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)
Articles/essays
- Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education? (Peter Gray and David Chanoff)
- Grown Unschoolers’ Evaluations of Their Unschooling Experiences (Peter Gray and Gina Riley)
- Learning is Not Linear: How Unschooled Children Learn (Happiness Is Here)
- Guide to Human-Centric Education (Human Restoration Project)
- Decolonizing School (Je’anna Clements)
Documentaries
Music/podcasts
- Fare of the Free Child (Akilah S. Richards)
- Songs from Matilda the Musical – School Song, When I Grow Up, Revolting Children
- Songs by Pink Floyd – Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2), Mother
- Strange Arithmetic (The Coup)
- Gonna Find You (Operation Ivy)
- Teenagers (My Chemical Romance)
- Pokémon (Neil Cicierega)
- The Youth Vote (Isaac Mitchell)
- Troubled (Miranda Sullivan)
- Pieces of Victory (Jeneen Miller)
- Deprogrammed and The Time Out Room (WWASP Survivors)
- The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton (The Mountain Goats)
- Youth (Lux Onigman)
