School Survival

I found out today that people search Google for "school fights" over 300k times a month. This means that people enjoy watching high school students beating the crap out of each other for no good reason. This is sad. So, in the hopes that some of the people searching for "school fights" will stumble upon […]

by Cassi Clausen My son is now 9 months old. His days consist of waking up, eating, playing, napping, playing more, eating more, bath and bedtime. He’s not being very productive, is he? Well, at least that’s how many would react if he were, say, 9 years old. And, to be honest, I sometimes feel […]

by Peter Gray, Ph.D. The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling? Children are more anxious and depressed than ever before. Why? Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty […]

by Rick The liberal elite see homeschoolers as more of a threat than your typical fruit of kaboom jihadist... or so it seems: Fundamentalist Protestant adults who were homeschooled over the last thirty years are not politically disengaged, far from it. They vote in far higher percentages than the rest of the population. They mobilize […]

by Idzie Have you ever heard someone be accused of being "childish", or been accused of that yourself? You probably have, because that's an extremely common insult. It's used when you have political opinions that other people disagree with (anarchy, for instance, is incredibly childish!), it's used when you dare to defy authority and stand […]

by Amy Hasinoff: Some excellent quotations from attorney Larry Walters in this in-depth interview: When Sex and Cell Phones Collide: Inside the Prosecution of a Teen Sexting Case, touching on a number of key points absent in most mainstream media coverage of sexting: 1. Sexting is normal for teens. It’s not a trend, a plague, […]

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Reauthorization Act of 2009, S. 678, has been introduced and was approved by the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 12-7 on December 17th, 2009. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA), was first enacted in 1974 and provides federal funding to states that comply with […]

In early November, NYRA’s project, the Community Alliance for the Ethical Treatment of Youth were invited to speak at the North Carolina conference of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA). IECA is a trade organization representing educational consultants, many of whom refer parents (and their teens) to abusive behavior modification programs. These referrals constitute a […]

by Alan Sitomer Yesterday I wrote about how first and foremost I must raise my standardized test scores. I also expressed how I was disheartened by such a cold, black and white reality. However, these are the cards I’ve been dealt. The federal government is literally strong-arming the states through a lording of the purse […]

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) doesn't do everything right, but it's a huge step in the right direction for getting young people to actually be treated as individual human beings, with their own opinions and their own individual hopes and dreams, instead of as property of their parents. Apparently […]