Fewer people from the country’s poorest states are enrolling in community college since Congress tightened eligibility rules for federal tuition assistance through...
Youth Today spoke on the phone Monday with defense attorney Robert Listenbee Jr., who was recently picked by President Barack Obama to...
Forty years ago, the passage of a federal statute known as Title IX prohibited federally funded educational institutions from discriminating against people...
In the District of Columbia, nearly 30 percent of children live in poverty, less than half of eighth-graders can read proficiently, and...
Juvenile justice advocates hailed the Obama administration’s announcement Friday that Philadelphia defense attorney Robert Listenbee Jr., a long-time champion of limiting the detention and...
Robert Listenbee Jr., a long-time champion of reforms in the juvenile justice system, including limiting the detention and incarceration of juveniles, is likely...
Before Jennifer Martinez leaves for one of her two jobs every day, she has to spend several minutes reassuring her four young...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Dr. Aaron Kupchik was putting his 7-year-old daughter to bed when she asked him what the criminal justice professor...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than a million people poured into downtown Washington, D.C., yesterday, a federal holiday dedicated to slain civil rights leader Martin...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama is expected to use his inauguration speech on Monday to call upon the country to protect...
President Barack Obama announced his support for a range of gun control policies this afternoon that addressed not only the threat of...
Representatives from a group of more than 300 juvenile justice and delinquency prevention organizations at the national, state and local level have...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Two out of three children in the United States experience or witness violence, crime or abuse while growing up,...
Advocates are ramping up pressure on the White House to appoint a bipartisan advisory council made up of community leaders under the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The well-being of children is intricately connected to the well-being of their mothers, starting from the multiplying cells of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nonprofit MacArthur Foundation has spent more than $100 million since 2004 on developing blueprints for reform within the juvenile justice...
Already reeling from budget cuts over the last 10 years, federal programs affecting children are bracing for another $1.5 trillion in discretionary spending...
Users of Google Maps and Google Search can now see government alerts on their mobile phones or computers when a child goes...
Sarah Sterner did not want clowns with ukuleles in her hospital room. Sterner, a high-school sophomore at the time, was diagnosed with...
Born in Calcutta, Yves Gomes came to the United States with his Indian mother and Bangladeshi father when he was a year...