At age 13, Becca Robison dreams of becoming an astronaut. In the meantime, she's sharing her dream with hundreds of young girls in Utah. Connect for Kids intern ...
It started as a one-week experiment, 15 years ago. But today, Project LIFT continues to offer homeless children in New York City an education in the dance, and much ...
It was news of a monstrous phone bill—over $7,000, racked up by a homesick soldier in Iraq —that prompted two Massachusetts children to launch Cell Phones ...
Too many children who go into foster care emerge years later with few skills, no high school diploma, and serious educational deficits. Letitia L. Star reports on a ...
By developing programs for youth grounded in American Indian tribal cultures, the National Indian Youth Leadership project is helping cultivate a new generation of ...
The summer job - it's the original, tried-and-true school-to-work program. Teen D'Nashia Jenkins recounts her job-hunting experience so far this summer, and tells ...
Produced by: SparkAction (at press time, Connect for Kids)
It's a complaint of high school students everywhere: "What good is all this stuff I'm studying going to do me when I'm done with school?" In the New Orleans area, ...
One kid nearly hyperventilated. Another almost knocked himself unconscious. Overanxious athletes? Nope. Spellers. What drives some students to endure the stress ...
America's teens lag behind much of the world when it comes to reading skills; jeopardizing their academic performance, college success, and civic engagement. Most ...
For many U.S. children, the experiences of the lost boys of Sudan, child refugees from a decades-long civil war, might seem impossibly remote. But Pauline Gordon and ...
Teaching 6- to 9-year-old struggling readers to connect sounds and letters can make a lasting impact on brain function, according to research published in Biological ...
For the young photographers in Lynne Bernay-Roman's classes, image-making becomes an inward voyage of discovery- one their teachers say helps them be more successful ...
Teens who have been raised by openly gay parents have a unique perspective on the contentious issue of single-sex marriage. Rob Capriccioso spoke with three such ...
Stories on our site about the huge role electronic media play in kids' lives generated lots of responses over the past two months. And visitors were inspired to learn ...
It might come as a surprise that a guy who wrote a book called Summer Reading is Killing Me is really worried about what boys aren't reading. Author Jon ...
From a program that uses peregrine falcons to teach inner city kids about nature, to one that turns public school parents into trained advocates for change, each year ...
