Better brush up on your Furbish. Hasbro's Furby, one of the most popular toys of the late 1990s, is coming back with a high-tech update—and a much heftier price tag. As you may recall, Furby was one of th...
Many children don't feel as though they're being challenged in school, according to a new study by the Center for American Progress. Researchers found that 57 percent of eighth graders find their history classe...
Although the United States is growing ever more concerned with obesity, particularly among youth, many schools are curtailing or canceling physical education. The culprit: ever-tightening budgets. According to ...
Teen Pushes Mag to Change WaysGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:Julia Bluhm didn't like what she was seeing. The pictures of girls and women she saw in ...
With hiring still stagnant even after the country supposedly came out of the Great Recession, youth are still desperate to find work. Last June, 12.1 percent of young adults under age 30 were unemployed, accord...
While parents and those who work with youth are understandably concerned with the phenomenon of sexting—sending naked pictures of one's self to others, often via cellphone—some studies suggest that ...
Summertime's supposed to be a season filled with baseball, iced tea and barefoot walks. However, for many teens summer may also be a time when they try drugs or alcohol for the first time. On any given day in J...
In the wake of an online petition asking Seventeen magazine to publish at least one undoctored photo each issue, the publication has released what it calls a "Body Peace Treaty"—essentially an eight-point...
Teens still love to communicate and congregate online—but are steering away from Facebook these days. In a recent poll by the market research company Conquest, more than 30 percent of teens say they've ei...
First they beat us at Chess. Then "Jeopardy." Now, technological gizmos are encroaching on another game in which humans always have held the upper hand: Rock-Paper-Scissors. Technologists at the University of T...