The Urban Institute's Center on Education Data and Policy publishes a new research report highlighting the role that outdated school attendance and...
An education policy expert has resigned her post at the New Mexico Legislature following a long-simmering controversy over remarks she made about...
Defendants who are 18 years old and younger will have the same access to legal counsel as adults in Washington, starting next...
The Trevor Project issues a new brief using data from its 2021 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health discussing the inclusion...
The Trevor Project uses data from its National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to highlight and discuss the diversity of youth...
Since it launched in January, 25 youth have enrolled in a three-year pilot project that pays girls and queer youth involved in...
The Sentencing Project discusses the latest data on racial disparities in youth incarceration across the country.
The Sentencing Project discusses the latest data on racial disparities in youth incarceration across the country.
The new law is retroactive. It allows persons to have prior marijuana-related convictions for which, under the new rules, they would not...
The Annie E. Casey Foundation releases the 32nd edition of its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book discussing the latest data on child...
The Urban Institute releases new research discussing how the pandemic has affected the delivery of maternal health care and has exacerbated longstanding...
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to discuss the unique challenges LGBTQ youth...
In my 15 years of working with youth who cycle through the criminal justice system — initially as a social worker and,...
The tally of Black youth detained in juvenile facilities during the Covid-19 pandemic reached a record high last January, while the same...
Researchers from the Urban Institute discuss how to reform the probation system to be less harmful to youth prospects and seek greater...
Structural racism drives harsher treatment of Black youth, who are more likely than white youth to be arrested, incarcerated, placed on probation...
LIDERINA/SHUTTERSTOCK Cheri Williams looks back with regret at the start of her career as a child welfare caseworker in 1998. Systemic racism...
The Trevor Project uses data from its 2020 National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health to examine and discuss the experiences of...
The Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center releases a new report discussing the stark inequities facing black girls in the Florida juvenile justice...
The Urban Institute discusses the effects of school district boundaries on the racial segregation of schools in Atlanta.