Youth Culture Update: High on Fashion

The retail chain Kitson is now selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with the names of well-known, and often-abused, drugs emblazoned on the back.The drugs name-checked by the clothing line include Adderall, Xanax a...

Youth Culture Update: More News Is Good News

Think good news gets buried in an avalanche of bad? That's not so true anymore. Positive stories are being reported more often. Thanks to social media, upbeat stories are being read, forwarded, liked and tweete...

Youth Culture Update: Watch Your Language!

The fact that so many youth spend so much time communicating online has been a blessing and a curse for their language skills, according to teachers.According to a study from the Pew Research Center's Internet ...

Youth Culture Update: The Rise of Twitter

Twitter, the social network that packages posts in 140-character tweets, continues to grow at a rapid pace. Since November 2010, Twitter has more than doubled its users, and now a full 18 percent of Americans u...

Youth Culture Lesson: The Good News

Positivity Grows, Thanks to Social NetworkingGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:They say no news is good news, and good news is rarely news at all. That ...

Youth Culture Update: iLifeSaver

Ricky Dean, 19, is able to live normally—thanks to his iPhone.Dean has had severe memory problems since birth and constantly needs to be told to do everything, including eating and combing his hair. For m...