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Youth
Kids for Cash: Inside One of the Nation’s Most Shocking Juvenile Justice Scandals
The shocking story of how thousands of children in Pennsylvania were jailed by two corrupt judges who received $2.6 million in kickbacks from the builders and owners of private …
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Pot
Ted Rall, “Pot”
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Educational Network Erases Borders
Students, teachers and parents are building bridges between classrooms on both sides of the miles of Atlantic Ocean that separate them.
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“It’s Not Just Two Pesos; It’s the Country:" Mexico City’s #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
A rise in subway fare has Mexican youth in a city-wide transportation protest, taking place in a majority of major train stations.
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What’s Missing Inside “Llewyn Davis“
The Coen brothers' latest movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” creates the now-gone world of folk music in the Greenwich Village of the early 1960s, but it totally misses key elements, …
Guarded Optimism
The department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody.
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Obamacare and Those Invincible Youngsters
Dean Baker: The focus on the young invincibles is largely a distraction. However it is not an altogether harmless distraction.
Youth Can Handle the Truth
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.
How Can We Help America’s Opportunity Youth? Five Lessons Learned in New Orleans
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.
Henry Giroux on the “School to Prison Pipeline”
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 …