New Kid-Run Magazine Unveiled

A new magazine, designed by kids to be read by kids, hit the market this April.KidSpirit magazine, which is based in Brooklyn, N.Y., and has an editorial board completely made up of children and teens, targets ...

Influencing Faith

Parents may think their teens don’t listen to them, but according to a new study, parents have a major influence on how teens perceive—and act on—their faith.The survey, conducted by the Ame...

Pioneering Children’s Ministry

Pioneer Clubs, an organization specializing in designing Bible-based curricula for midweek church youth functions, has created a new program specifically designed for large children’s groups.It’s ca...

Dangerous Highways

We’ve all heard automobile accidents are the leading cause of death among children and teens. A new study has brought that sobering stat into sharper focus, finding more than half of the nearly 10,000 chi...

Failing Grades

Schools in some of the country’s largest cities are struggling to graduate their students, according to a new report. The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, found schools in Detroit, Indi...

Se Habla Espanol, MySpace? You Bet!

MySpace, the gigantic social networking site, hopes to increase its outreach to prospective Spanish-speaking customers by offering new bilingual communities. The communities, part of MySpace Latino, include inf...

YouTube Goes to College

It’s not like colleges and universities are scrapping their glossy brochures and campus tours. Many, however, are supplementing traditional recruitment techniques with a presence on YouTube, the ubiquitous v...

Bad Start

About one of every 50 babies born in the United States have been neglected or abused, and about a third of those infants were a week old or less when the maltreatment took place. The government says more than 9...

On My Honor

Responding to their peers’ growing willingness to cheat and plagiarize, some students at the University of Texas at San Antonio proposed a new honor code for the school. Only one problem: A good chunk of ...