The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention uses data from three different national collections to provide a summary of the current...
Cassio Batteast, a community advocate in Jackson, recently sat down with 20 of the students in the local school district who were...
Tommie Mabry was 12 when a bullet grazed him while he was burglarizing a home he thought was empty. It could have...
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) releases their annual report on state-funded preschool education across the nation. The report shows...
After the 2018 expansion of its youth employment initiatives into Detroit, Urban Alliance has announced that Sherri Davis Chisholm will be the...
Relly Brown was so destitute in 2016 they could not even get a room in the abandoned house on the corner of...
Foster youth who identify as LGBTQ face significantly more hurdles in their educational path, experiencing harassment, homelessness and depression at higher rates,...
Achieving equity in the U.S. starts with giving young people of color a level playing field, Rep. Lucy McBath says.
CLASP publishes findings on young adults' mental health from focus groups in "small and hard-to-reach" white rural; Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and...
JDRF recently appointed leading international diabetes expert and advocate, Dr. Aaron J. Kowalski, Ph.D. as its president and CEO. He succeeds Derek Rapp who...
Two hours after the school day ended, three parents sat in the nearly empty cafeteria at Norton Park Elementary School in a...
UNICEF's first ever global report on early childhood education provides a comprehensive and exhaustive analysis of pre-primary education across the globe, showing...
Karen Baynes-Dunning is the interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after its board voted unanimously to name...
The Urban Institute identifies and discusses proven, effective and innovative strategies for investment in community-based programs and tools to help justice-involved youth...
An Atlanta robotics team initially made up of refugee youth has racked up win after win in state and national competitions, successfully...
World of Children has appointed Stefaan Poortman as its next executive director following a lengthy nationwide search. Poortman comes to World of...
By the age of 17, David Vanwetter had been in and out of detention perhaps a dozen times.
Youth in foster care face a multitude of barriers when it comes to higher education. How will they pay for room, board,...
The Urban Institute uses the most recent and comprehensive data available to show the rates of enrollment of immigrant children in early...
Paul Reviere is sheriff of Lincoln County, a rural area with just under 8,000 people two hours east of Atlanta. In addition...