If we want to succeed as a nation, then we absolutely have to start with our children.
David Chura | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a question every teacher asks with each new school year: "Why do I teach?" For me it was always, "Why teach the hard to reach?"
Tabby Biddle | Posted 05.25.2011
For 20 years, Meade Palidofsky has been working in juvenile prisons, helping young people find their voice and tell their stories through performance art. I learned about her incredible work through the documentary, "Girls on the Wall."
J. Richard Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
As a society, we are facing a crucial decision: We can continue to criminalize our children and groom them for adult prisons. Or, we can invest in programs that help rather than harm them.
Tom Hayden | Posted 05.25.2011
Robert Graham's fear has come true; LA leads California, California leads America, and America leads the world, in the population of the incarcerated, most of them young men of color.
Carol Chodroff | Posted 05.25.2011
The Youth PROMISE Act Rejects "one size fits all" approaches that will funnel more youth -- particularly poor youth and youth of color -- into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
Michael Piraino | Posted 05.25.2011