VTech, a company that makes baby monitors, children's tablets and other educational toys, revealed recently that data for 5 million customers had been hacked—meaning that cybercriminals had access to kids...

Colleges and universities have been home to increasing unrest during the past several months—sometimes regarding serious issues such as systematic racism and other times for so-called "microaggressions....

A new study from Forrester Research has found that, in addition to cord-cutters—those who quit cable in exchange for streaming services—there's a growing cadre of cord-nevers, people who've never pa...

With activists at colleges campaigning for safe spaces for students, the student newspaper at Claremont McKenna College is taking the trend a step further: offering a safe space on its pages for minorities. ...

The United States lags behind other developed nations in sending its kids to preschool, according to a recent study. While about two-thirds of 3- and 4-year-olds are enrolled in early childhood education, that'...

Lizzie Velasquez, a 17-year-old who suffers from Marfan Syndrome, once was called out on YouTube as "the World's Ugliest Woman." For Velasquez, that was nothing particularly new—just a variation of the ...

Star Wars: The Force Awakens hasn't opened yet, and it's already setting earnings records. According to Fandango, the new Star Wars movie has become the biggest pre-seller in the history of the online compan...

After hearing that a nearby mosque had been vandalized in what police are calling a hate crime, 7-year-old Jack Swanson of Pflugerville, Texas, decided to do what he could to repair the building. So he turned o...

Instagram, one of the most popular social networks among youth, has become for many a land of unreality. Users obsess about every pose and picture in an effort to create a slick, airbrushed representation of th...

Earlier this month, protesters at the University of Missouri—citing pervasive racism on the campus—forced its president and chancellor to resign. Now other colleges and universities are taking Mizzo...