When you see students struggling with depression, it's hard to know what to do. You may feel helpless because you usually can't improve their circumstances or their feelings. However, you still can offer them m...
"Sesame Street" has begun releasing new episodes of its seminal series, this time not in the free confines of PBS but in the premium cable world of HBO. While episodes eventually will air for free on PBS, th...
Netflix users streamed a collective 42.5 billion hours' worth of programming last year—an increase of about 13.5 billion hours from 2014. That means the folks on each Netflix account streamed approximatel...
Late last year, the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association sent an email to students, warning basketball fans not to "taunt or disrespect" opposing teams with their chants. The disparaging phrases inclu...
When 20-year-old Hanna Lottritz was taken to the hospital last July, she was completely unresponsive. Her blood alcohol concentration was five times the legal limit, and doctors didn't expect her to survive. ...
Children as young as 13 are undergoing weight-loss surgery in Great Britain, according to a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The fact that British kids are undergoing surgery to shrin...
Growing up in poverty can impact kids in a whole host of negative ways. According to scientists from Washington University in St. Louis, that includes kids' gray matter. Researchers studied the brainwaves of...
Teens love their cellphones…so much so, in fact, that many of them don't stop using them even when they're behind the wheel. About 45 percent of 16- and 17-year-olds admit to having texted in the past ...
Bullies can be pretty scary, especially when you have to face them every day at school. Those same bullies still can be pretty worrisome even if you're not at school, you outweigh them by about 120 pounds, and ...
No news is good news, they say, and Millennials are taking that saying to a new level. According to a study from Pew Research, only 27 percent of young adults believe news media has a "positive impact" in the...