To make positive change for kids, you need to know where things stand, what's working and what needs to be improved. The annual KIDS COUNT Data Book offers both ...
Touted in the 1980s as a firm response to youth crime, the boot camp model has come under increasingly skeptical scrutiny. After several deaths, some states have shut ...
There's good news on the rates of rape and sexual assault in the U.S.—a big decline in the rates of these crimes since the 1970s. Still, parents and other ...
By many measures, girls are on a roll. In terms of academic achievement, college attendance and completion, and the opportunities that are open to them, girls are ...
Last month Connect for Kids reported on Teenangels, young volunteers who help their peers understand the importance of Internet safety. What other efforts are ...
With a sharp increase in the number of kids with severe, even life-threatening, food allergies, schools and other facilities are trying to develop workable policies ...
While the federal No Child Left Behind law has focused needed attention on educational inequities, some students remain nearly invisible: kids involved in the ...
Powerful emotions like anger can become a major roadblock to learning. Art therapy is one approach to helping kids manage those feelings and be successful. Letitia ...
According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, nearly one million teenage girls will become pregnant each year. This number is slowly trickling down, ...
Joshua Linen was a high school freshman when he announced, "Hey, Dad, they gave me an ATM card in health class today!" The card can't deliver a dime in cash, but his ...
CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: ISSUE BRIEF #105
The concepts of positive youth development suggest that nearly all youth are capable of
growing up properly and ...
Getting kids to avoid or withdraw from gangs is among the most difficult tasks in youth work, and a fresh set of evaluations of federally funded anti-gang programs ...
Stress has been related to both lower socioeconomic status and poorer health. This research tests a model which suggests that teenagers from varying socioeconomic ...
Across the nation, legislatures and law enforcement agencies have been increasingly willing to hold adults responsible for underage drinking and the problems such ...
By Katrina Baum, Ph.D.
BJS Statistician
During the period 1993-2003, juveniles
ages 12-14 and juveniles ages 15-17
experienced average annual rates of
nonfatal ...
Organized hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan have historically terrorized blacks and Jews in the Southeast. But the recent influx of Hispanic immigrants to the region ...
Something is rotten in suburbia. On average, teenagers who live with wealthy, highly educated parents in tony neighborhoods are more troubled than other teens, even ...
Marty "Roach." That's how the teacher pronounces the new kid's name. The teasing ensues, and one girl insists on keeping the torment going.
Then she's assigned to a ...
It's a cautionary tale for parents: when an 11-year-old boy was rescued after four days in the Utah wilderness, it turned out he could have been found sooner—if ...
