The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 was the first reform of the public workforce system in 15 years. Now, Regional...
My daughter called yesterday with some exciting news. She has decided to go back to school to be a social worker. I...
A horrific act of child abuse can be exploited as easily as a horrific act of terrorism. And when a child known...
I have helped many young people with financial support for college, both personally and through my company. This year I am funding...
In the past several decades, the United States has seen a significant drop in the adolescent pregnancy rate: from 116.9 pregnancies per...
I go to the local Boys and Girls Club every Monday afternoon to pick up Amanda (children’s names have been changed) for...
We’re entering a remarkable age of a new understanding about why we behave the way we do and how to change those...
Everyone wants our youth to succeed academically — perhaps none more so than those of us who have dedicated our lives to...
Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed captured the attention of the public in September when he was arrested during his first weeks at MacArthur High...
The year before we opened our charter school in St. Louis, another one had closed. It was a school for dropouts, ages...
We sometimes skip class, talk back to teachers and experiment with marijuana. I was shocked to learn that in some areas of...
October was bullying prevention month and there were programs all over the country to highlight bullying as an ongoing issue in schools.
The video of a school resource officer violently slamming an African-American teenage girl to the floor and then dragging her across the...
The evidence is clear and alarming: Teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBTQ) are more likely to use drugs...
We just got back from feeding Harlow at the hospital, and we were hanging out in the motor home. I was getting...
We need to use youth’s culture as the central focus in planning after-school programs. This might include incorporating African-American youth’s linguistic resource,...
October is Youth Justice Awareness Month, and as consensus builds in the Senate and the House around the need for criminal justice...
In 2014, approximately 5.6 million young people were out of work or school, and the youth unemployment rate was double that of...
National Depression Screening Day (NDSD), Oct. 8, is an ideal time to promote depression awareness in schools and after-school programs.
The paradox of adolescence is that the same changes in the brain that increase adolescents’ propensity toward risk also allow for enhanced...