{"id":13701,"date":"2014-04-24T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13701"},"modified":"2014-04-24T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:49:35","slug":"class-disparities-in-extracurricular-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=13701","title":{"rendered":"class disparities in extracurricular activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/youth-engagement-in-extracurricular-activities-and-the-social-class-divide\/\">CIRCLE homepage<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Young people in the United States are starkly divided in how they use their leisure time. Some exclusively pursue their artistic or athletic passions and eschew other types of activities. Others spend their time on academic clubs, perhaps \u201cbuilding their resume\u201d with an eye toward applying to selective universities. Still others are mostly disengaged from extracurriculars and other organized activities, either because they are working for pay or because they would rather informally hang out with friends. This variation, and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/harry-hermione-ron-and-neville-portraits-of-american-teens-leisure-time-use\/\">\u201cclusters\u201d of like-minded students<\/a>\u00a0that it creates, can partially be attributed to personal preference. However, it also reflects troubling gaps based on widening social disparities.<\/p>\n<p>In our most recent working paper, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/WP_80_KawashimaGinsberg.pdf\">Harry, Hermione, Ron and Neville\u2013 Portraits of American Teenagers\u2019 Extracurricular Involvement, and Implications for Educational Interventions<\/a>,\u201d CIRCLE Deputy Director Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg analyzes these trends in how contemporary American teens spend their leisure time, with particular consideration to how socioeconomic class affects students\u2019 involvement in organized activities their schools or communities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/WP80_ClassDisparity.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the CIRCLE homepage today: Young people in the United States are starkly divided in how they use their leisure time. Some exclusively pursue their artistic or athletic passions and eschew other types of activities. Others spend their time on academic clubs, perhaps \u201cbuilding their resume\u201d with an eye toward applying to selective universities. Still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13702,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13701\/revisions\/13702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}