There is one institution that we can depend on being there for our young people, says Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president...
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
Eighteen U.S. states have no minimum age for possession of rifles and shotguns, says a new report by the Open Society Institute...
This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....
Of the 3.7 million American adolescents, ages 13 through 18, who are uninsured, more than 2.3 million are eligible for – but...
Job Corps graduates earn higher wages and are less likely to have run-ins with the criminal justice system than eligible nonparticipants, according...
Mark Schuster, M..D., Ph.D., Todd Franke, Ph.D., Amy Bastian, MPH, et al. American Journal of Public Health April 2000, Vol. 90, No....
Leslie Acoca Journal of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention October 1999, Vol. VI, No. 1 Free from Juvenile Justice...
Phyllis Ellickson, Ph.D., and Kimberly McGuigan, Ph.D. American Journal of Public Health, April 2000, Vol. 90, No. 4, pgs. 566-572 Free from...
With financial support from Microsoft Corporation and Children’s Television Workshop (creators of “Sesame Street”), and with guidance from the latter, the National...
Many years ago I attended a dinner party at which the conversation turned to the question, “Has a book ever changed your...
After Hurricane Floyd slammed the East Coast last September, the kids at PowerUp in San Jose, Calif., hit the Internet. Their mission...
Florence, S.C.—Enveloped in the picturesque, seductive spring greenery and perfumed breezes of this sprawling Up Country Southern city, but left out of...
Phoenix, Ariz.—Garrett is just 14, but he’s about to fail a test that could send him to jail. “I was around some...
America’s major institutions, succumbing to cold, Reagan/Clinton-era politics, have profoundly let young people down. A recent avalanche of cloned reports by interest...
Now that nearly 3,000 youths have gone to juvenile drug courts and the U.S. Justice Department has spent more than $16 million...
As the nation prepares for the obligatory wringing of hands and lowering of flags on April 20th to mark the first anniversary...
By Angela Randolph Growing up, I always wanted to go to the Caribbean Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. I live...
By Ju Yon Kim When I was seven years old I went to the circus with my family and friends. We had...
By Amy Bracken Kari Pardoe is barely out of high school, but she’s already given away more money than many people do...