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Queer Youth Fund Announces Half A Million in Grants to Organizations Serving LGBT Youth

Tuesday, the Liberty Hill Foundation announced $500,000 in grants would be given to five community-based organizations serving LGBTQ youth. The multi-year grants...

New Report Urges Schools To Make Leap to “Digital” Textbooks By 2017

Monday, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) released a new report detailing the influence of recent technologies — such as digital...

U.S. Department of Labor Holds Conference to Unveil New Child Labor Findings

“Globalization has now linked the fate of workers everywhere,” said Carol Pier, deputy undersecretary for International Affairs for the United States Department...

Results from the 2011 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age

Boy Scouts of America Apologize for Sex Abuse

After more than 20 years of rejecting accusations that it mishandled the problem of sex abuse in its ranks, the Boy Scouts...

Report: Perceptions of Risk Affect Teen Substance Use

More teens now perceive using marijuana once or twice a week to be a lower risk to their health than smoking cigarettes...

Microsoft Launches New Initiative to Fight Global Youth Unemployment

Last week, Microsoft announced a new global initiative called YouthSpark, which seeks to improve conditions for more than 300 million young people...

Boston College Junior Named First U.S. Youth Rep to U.N.

There’s a fresh new face among the United States delegates gathered at the General Assembly of the United Nations this week. Twenty-year-old...

2011 National School Climate Survey: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth in Our Nation’s Schools

Social Network Provides Support for Foster Kids Aging Out of the System

Foster children have a new support system to turn to when they turn 18 (21 in some states) and age out of...

America’s High Schools More Supportive of LGBT Youth, But Majority of Gay Teens Still Feel Unsafe at School, Says New Report

Earlier this month, the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) released its 2011 National School Climate Survey, finding for the first...

Scout Abuse Files Keep Making News

Be prepared to read a lot about sex abuse in the Boy Scouts over the next few months. The pending release of...

National Contest Encourages Youth to Create Anti-Bullying Videos

The deadline for entries in the Stop Bullying Video Challenge, a joint project of the Department of Health and Human Services and ChallengePost, steadily...

Education at a Glance 2012: OECD Indicators

This is a report which is premised on a global scale. Below are links to the full report and a more condensed,...

Voices of Suicide Survivors: Webinar Explores Prevention Techniques

Coinciding with National Suicide Prevention Week, the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (NCCBH) held a Webinar on Wednesday titled Suicide Primer: Signs,...

Turning Back the Clock on Voting Rights: The Impact of New Photo Identification Requirements on Young People of Color

Meridian Struggles with School-to-Prison Allegations

Lionel Townsend will turn 14 in September and a few months after that he will be able to return to school, ending...

School-to-Jailhouse Pipeline Not Only in Mississippi

Meridian is not alone under the DOJ magnifying glass. In a somewhat similar case in Tennessee, the DOJ says the Juvenile Court...

Poverty and the Census: Some Good News, Little Bad News

The worst of the lingering aftermath of the recession is likely over, but deep cuts to government spending could undo the fragile...