By Dan Birman The Conversation Inside the Juvenile Justice Center in Nashville, Tennessee is a steel door fitted with a high-security system. Push a button and the door unlocks, revealing another steel door with a slot for IDs. When…
Juvenile Justice Information Exchange From disproportionality to unfair gender bias to consent decrees to workforce development, legal professionals and youth workers reflect on what needs to be improved within juvenile justice at the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative 2017 convening….
By Jason Madera Futurity Students who attend highly ranked colleges or universities exhibit better mental health than their peers at lower-ranked, less expensive schools do, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at five years of data on Reddit, scanning it for…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat So how do Latino parents judge the quality of their child’s school? The good old-fashioned way: by reviewing their child’s report card. A recent poll conducted by the Leadership Conference Fund, a nonprofit…
The Conversation Editor’s note: President Donald Trump stunned the world on June 1 by announcing his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, a landmark global agreement to lower greenhouse gas emissions and minimize the…
By Sara Krevoy Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange The pool of Los Angeles County youngsters who wind up in voluntary probation are called “236 youth.” LOS ANGELES — Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most of her…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday A growing number of U.S. children may develop vision problems before they reach kindergarten, according to a study, Newsmax reports. Latino children were the most likely group to have vision problems. Study researchers examined U.S….
By Earl Anthony Wayne & Sergio M. Alcocer The Conversation Last week, officials from the U.S. and Mexico revitalized their commitment to fight cross-border smuggling of drugs, arms and money. U.S. officials recognized America’s demand for drugs as “the…
By La Monica Everett-Haynes Futurity Music can produce a humanizing effect for members of groups experiencing social and political opposition, research suggests. “I have played music most of my life and realized that there were these connections between how…
By Marilyn Garateix Latino Ed Beat As the number of Hispanic students enrolled in college has increased so has the discussion of the roles of the institutions that are educating them. A large portion of Hispanic students are concentrated in a…
By Ani Kokobobo The Conversation By and large, critics have taken Ivanka Trump at her word about her new book, “Women Who Work.” She claims she wrote it before her father’s election, “from the perspective of an executive and an…
By Eric Moreno SaludToday Fact: Where you greatly impacts how healthy you will be. Lifespans differs by as much as 20 years at birth between the longest- and shortest-rated counties United States, revealing massive health inequities in different parts of…
By Jay L. Zagorsky The Conversation John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resignedamid a funding fight over the 2020 Census. Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI, why…
By Diane Maceachern Moms Clean Air Force The Clean Air Act is coming under attack for being unnecessary and too costly to enforce. But the ‘State of the Air 2017’ report from the American Lung Association (ALA), shows that millions of people…
By Madeline Ottilie Juvenile Justice Information & Exchange The Los Angeles County Office of Education boasts that scores of young people who were at risk of dropping out of high school get their high school diplomas or their GED…
By Brendan Lynch Futurity A new study finds a correlation between defending racist language and expression as “free speech” and racially prejudicial attitudes and beliefs. “The correlation between using the free speech defense and people’s own racial prejudice is pretty…
By Taylor Lewis Council on Hemispheric Affairs In the polarizing and contentious period since the 2016 presidential election, it has become relatively easy to be swept into the ongoing debate over U.S. immigration policy. Without full comprehension of local, national…
By Kelly Lytle Hernandez The Conversation It was not always a crime to enter the United States without authorization. In fact, for most of American history, immigrants could enter the United States without official permission and not fear criminal…
By Cliff Despres SaludToday Where you live could be impacting your stress levels (and overall health). SmartAsset, a financial company, recently examined the positive and negative factors of the largest 500 U.S. cities to determine the stress levels facing…
By Kerry Sullivan Ancient Origins For several years now, reports have circulated about the worrisome decline of the population of bees. Periodically, newspaper headlines lament the bees’ disappearance as an irreversible tipping point toward environmental devastation. Depending on your…
By Bert Gambini Futurity Customizing political news online to filter out what doesn’t align with your beliefs may have real-world negative effects on democracy. A new study, published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior is among the first to experimentally test the…
By Lori Popkewitz Alper Moms Clean Air Force When we hear the words “climate change” many things come to mind, including intense heat waves and droughts, increase in natural disasters, loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise, and…
By Lindsey McDougle The Conversation Earth Day comes right before National Volunteer Week, an annual celebration of North American volunteerism in late April. This fortuitous timing gives environmental nonprofits an opportunity to engage prospective volunteers, especially nonwhites who live…
By Eric Moreno SaludToday It is a sad, but true, fact. More Latinos and other Americans than ever before are stressed, depressed, and coping with anxiety on a regular basis. About 8.3 million U.S. adults (3.5%) suffer from serious…
By Angie Hunt Futurity Six decades of research suggest the effect of media violence on aggressive behavior is the same across different cultures. Craig Anderson, professor of psychology at Iowa State University, and a team of researchers in seven…
