Youth

The department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody.

Dean Baker: The focus on the young invincibles is largely a distraction. However it is not an altogether harmless distraction.

This week we want to highlight some of the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their communities and what they are doing about them.

Young people who aren't in school or working aren't beyond hope, but we need to invest more in the programs that will help them.

Education expert Henry Giroux tells Bill public schools are suffering from an overemphasis on academic testing as teachers are stripped of their powers, in schools with disciplinary systems that …

Instead of electoral politics, we should be paying more attention to the community-based movement building happening around the country.

This interview was conducted at the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest's 2013 “War on Youth” Summer Institute, Summer 2013.

The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media but a new generation of young immigrants are making sure their voices …

Instead of making schools safer, we've simply managed to make them more authoritarian.

Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.