Directors of after-school programs around the nation fear the deepening recession will force more children to spend afternoons home alone or on the street as cash-strapped governments slash funding and donation...

Just like their parents, kids are taking herbal supplements including fish oil and ginseng, a sign of just how mainstream alternative medicine has become.More than 1 in 9 children and teens try those remedies a...

When University of Central Florida junior Nicole Nissim got stumped in trigonometry, she checked out what was showing on YouTube.Nissim typically scours the video-sharing website for clips of bands and comedy s...

Barack Obama isn't even president yet, but a community in Maine is thinking about naming a middle school for him.By the beginning of the next school year, Marin City middle school students will have a new build...

For African-American Web surfers who just can't relate to their browsers, there's hope: the Blackbird Web browser. Billed as "the Web browser for the African-American community," it's a modification of Mozilla...

The bullying came in classes, at school dances and a dorm room by girls who called themselves "Oprichniki," the name of a Russian attack squad notorious for torturing suspected enemies of a 16th-century czar.Af...

New Christian Voices today announced its Twelve Laughs of Christmas promotion, which will give away prize packages of clean comedy daily for the 12 days leading up to Christmas to readers of this new onlin...

Q: What was it like recording a Christmas project, and how was this experience different than recording a regular studio album?A: It was a lot easier to recrord It's Christmas! The emotion of each song was easy...

American students are doing better than the international average in science and math, but still lag behind a number of Asian and European peers.U.S. students have made some progress since 1995 in math, while s...

Women are to be given the contraceptive Pill by pharmacists without the need for a GP prescription for the first time, it has been revealed.Pilot sites are being set up in areas of London with the highest teena...