Racial Bias in Child Protection? A Comparison of Competing Explanations Using National Data Pediatrics The disproportionate number of black children who are...
A federal appeals court judge has taken the unusual step of appealing directly to Attorney General Eric Holder to overturn a deportation...
The Coalition for Educational Success, a group of for-profit colleges that earlier issued a report blasting the methods and findings of a...
College enrollment rose more than 7 percent in the 2009-2010 school year, rising from 19.6 million in the fall of 2008 to...
National Consumer Law Center Students planning to attend for-profit colleges are finding it easier to borrow money from the institution itself to...
A new “degree profile” that proposes standards of critical thinking and knowledge that should be associated with earning associate, bachelor’s and master’s...
Training students to fill jobs in the so-called allied health professions – a category that includes scores of occupations other than doctor,...
Pathological Video Game Use Among Youths: A Two-Year Longitudinal Study Pediatrics A large study of youths in Singapore led researchers to conclude...
A report commissioned by a coalition of for-profit schools challenges the findings of the Government Accountability Office’s report that found alleged fraud...
Despite the ongoing economic downturn and the resulting decline in state budgets, almost all states maintained or made improvements to their Medicaid...
Association between Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Young Adults’ Self-reported Abstinence Pediatrics Self-reported sexual behavior – the lodestar of much research on teens’...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth are the target of a new task force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention,...
Births to teenagers in 2009 dropped 6 percent, reversing two years of increases that interrupted years of decline, according to preliminary data...
The number of child abuse and neglect cases dropped slightly last year, for the third year in a row, but the number...
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), who has been battling with for-profit colleges that he says make huge profits at the federal trough, suggested...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear two Oregon cases on whether a warrant is needed for a social workers...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday ripped into what he said are Republican plans to trim funding for education by 20 percent to...
The Department of Health and Human Services, expanding the Obama administration’s policy of making federal programs prove they are effective, has announced...
Data released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that the child poverty rate increased last year, as the number of Americans living...
The fate of a proposed $465 million federal authorization for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is as shrouded in...