Month: March 2021

Important activity in school playgrounds I see children playing every day at my neighborhood elementary school after construction hours or during the summer. Adults often supervise or join in the fun. According to the Kansas Health Foundation’s 2018 data book, 74.5% of children and teens are not physically active for at least 60 minutes a […]

When shopping for groceries, I almost always use the self-checkout line. I confess that I did not consider the broader social and economic implications of my choice until Tom Chamberlain enlightened me. Chamberlain, who is the Oregon president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industry Organizations, announced last week that his organization […]

Mental health problems such as depression account for nearly half of all disabilities among young people aged 10 to 24, according to a new study from the World Health Organization (WHO). The researchers looked at data from 191 countries and estimated the number of healthy years lost due to disability resulting from illness and injury […]

In my early teens, my parents went through a troubling divorce. My mother had to take care of three children. I was quickly approaching to enter college and my teenage brother had just had a baby – his girlfriend and my niece living under our roof. My mom was making a little over $ 700 […]

[On this week’s Inside The New York Times Book Review podcast, Matthew Desmond discusses “Evicted.”] Lamar, his sons and other teens in their Milwaukee neighborhood sit, playing cards and smoking blunts, when a loud and confident knock on the door could be “a homeowner’s knock or a sheriff’s knock” . Fortunately, it was only Colin, […]

HOLYOKE – During his freshman year at Holyoke High School, David Martinez said he wasn’t really serious about going to class and learning. “I’m not going to lie, I was having fun,” the 16-year-old said with a shy smile. “A little too much fun.” In the years gone by, Martinez may have been one of […]

By Saundra YoungCNN Medical Senior Producer The number of teens having sex hasn’t changed much over the past eight years, according to a new report examining sexual behavior in teens aged 15 to 19. The report, from the National Survey of Family Growth (NFSG), was released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics of […]

It’s not uncommon for teens to stay up late – finish homework, chat or email with friends, participate in social activities, or work. A study published in Preventive Medicine finds that more than two-thirds of American teens report sleeping less than eight hours on school nights, and researchers say insufficient sleep is associated with risky […]

There are advantages to attending a virtual conference. It’s a lot cheaper, on the one hand. No one cares what you wear for another. But one of the best things about the new Americana Music Association Foundation’s first event, “Thriving Roots: A Virtual Community Music Conference,” is that each session can be viewed as it […]

The number of states that require high school students to take an economics course has declined over the past two years, and mandates for teaching personal finance in upper grades remain stagnant, according to a new survey. The biennial survey of states by the Council for Economic Education, published exclusively on CNBC.com, found that 20 […]