Youth Development

Rates of chronic absenteeism soared during the pandemic. School districts are having some success with using telemedicine and teletherapy to ensure more kids stay in school.

Students tend to grow up feeling as if learning is a stressful chore while play is a reward.

Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but homeschooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the…

As nightstand “To Be Read” piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming…

Teachers see the pandemic learning loss that persists, and know that the need for help and funding continues.

In London, youth activists threw soup at Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” asking, “Is art worth more than life? More than food? More than justice?” In Melbourne, Australia, two protesters superglued themselves…

Discussion of climate change typically involves natural phenomena: raging wildfires, record flooding, ruinous drought. Less frequently examined, but equally important, is the effect of our warming planet on a child’s right to education.

Students who missed at least 30% of school in the prior year improved their attendance by five days — a small, but promising finding, experts say.

Creating ‘happy schools’ with open spaces, greenery and natural light can make them places where students feel joyful, safe and supported.

“Many people think our primary focus is to send children home, but actually our focus is to keep kids in school,” said school nurse Kate King.

Whenever a mass shooting takes place in schools, public discussion often focuses on laws or policies that might have prevented the tragedy. But averting school violence needs more than gun…

Young people are faced with unpredictable futures. Here’s how one nonprofit is helping youth from marginalised backgrounds navigate alternative future scenarios.