Is your child ready for more independence, but you’re not ready to give them a smartphone? More parents are turning to GPS trackers and kids’ smartwatches to keep tabs on their child’s location -- but ...

Whether it's bad news at home or around the world, talking to kids directly about what's happening often results in both kids and parents feeling better.

Teenagers believe they should be able to use generative artificial intelligence to complete school assignments—but their ...

Federal Report Cards for Texas, the Austin Independent School District, and each of the district’s campuses are now available ...

A.I. expert Sheldon Fernandez analyzes how generative tools are shaping young, formative minds, arguing that the real risk is not exposure to new technology, but the premature outsourcing of ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Most parents want ...

Indiana’s 25th-place ranking in overall child well-being is the kind of number that invites two equally unhelpful reactions: self-congratulation or despair. We should resist both. There is real ...

Precisify, the cross-platform media intelligence specialist, has released Precisify Insights: Kids US, its latest proprietary report on how Gen Alpha children aged 2-12 and their parents consume media ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Every year, the Indiana Youth Institute releases its KIDS COUNT Data Book, giving us a look at how Indiana kids are doing. In 2026, Indiana ranks 25th nationally in overall child ...

Report crime? Get free tickets to Disneyland. That’s what leaders in two Los Angeles neighborhoods promised kids who participate in a 30-day crime-fighting challenge. Children in the Gardena and ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A rainbow, a family portrait, a heart. These are the drawings ...

Texas’ Latino population is shouldering the weight of the children’s health coverage crisis, according to analysis from a civil rights and advocacy organization. Texas has had the highest rate of ...