Zoning Laws Make Child Care Unaffordable in Utah
Child care centers should have the same development flexibility as charter schools.
Child care centers should have the same development flexibility as charter schools.
An inspector general report found poor staff training led to children languishing for weeks in an emergency tent shelter inside an Army base in Texas last year.
Even if credentialed teachers help kids learn more, it’s not worth making D.C. day cares prohibitively expensive and pushing experienced teachers out of jobs.
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
The Netflix docu-thriller Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey shows the downfall of Warren Jeffs and the unjustified taking of 450 children inside his religious community.
From cronyist subsidies to an unfair tax code, there are several key fixes Congress could make to better serve the public.
Sarra's name was added to the government's official list of unfit caretakers after she briefly ran an errand without her kids in tow.
The rapper, podcaster, and author talks about "freedom, liberty, and all of that good stuff."
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first popularized shaken-baby syndrome has doubts about how it is used in courtrooms today.
Whether the federal government should be subsidizing families at all is another matter.
While the task force is a move in the right direction, truancy shouldn't be up for criminal prosecution in the first place.
The New York Times misleadingly claims that cases like the abortion sought by a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim "are not as rare as people think."
Plus: Judge blocks Title IX guidance, Amazon admits turning over Ring surveillance footage to cops, and more...
The debate isn’t a panorama of the whole American abortion war, but it is a snapshot of a key battle after a surprise victory, and it shows no path to peace.
There is demand for child tax credits, paid family leave, and funding for crisis pregnancy centers but the Rubio-Romney plan is not the answer.
A kid roaming the streets on his own is like an endangered species: once common, now rare, and worth trying to bring back.
A compendium of my writings defending the morality and legality of this program - but also warning that it remains imperiled unless and until Congress passes a law institutionalizing it.
Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.
Plus: trans teens, trouble at the FTC, and more...
Many parents are on the child abuse and neglect registry, and they don't even know it.
While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
“Scared straight” juvenile policing programs have a history of not working. They’re not the solution to school shootings.
Plus: Supreme Court sides with Ted Cruz in campaign finance case, gender quota for corporate boards ruled unconstitutional, and more...
"The knot in getting that product into the U.S. isn't safety, it's a regulatory issue," says Peter Pitts.
"I really think I'm allowed to stay here," I explained, in vain.
Plus: Lawsuit against Twitter can move forward, antitrust bills targeting Big Tech falter, and more...
Preet Bharara's new children's book, Justice Is... purports to be "a guide for young truth seekers."
In Japan, even very young children are seen as capable.
Plus: Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed, judge gives gun rights back to January 6 defendant, and more...
"We certainly don't want parents getting in trouble because their kids were playing on the playground," says Gov. Jared Polis
Plus: Biden wants to ramp up military and law enforcement spending, study challenges conventional wisdom about social media misinformation, and more...
Even if the senators are genuinely confused, that underlines the recklessness of their attack on Ketanji Brown Jackson.
The senator argues that questioning sex offender policies "endangers our children."
The Supreme Court nominee raised serious constitutional concerns about laws that punish sex offenders after they complete their sentences.
"There are no known stories of any abductions here," says Anna Hershberger.
Plus: Russian tactics in Ukraine getting uglier, DHS does bulk surveillance of money transfers, Biden's overhyped cryptocurrency order, and more...
The broken foster system for Native American kids is finally up for Supreme Court scrutiny.
Plus: Texas can't investigate family of transgender teen, SCOTUS considers case on doctor drug trafficking, and more...
ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”
"If this study doesn't put the nail in the coffin of academic training to little children, it's hard to imagine what will," says psychologist Peter Gray.
The education pioneer’s authoritarian personality was at odds with her commitment to children’s independence.
A seventh grade health teacher says that masks and lockdowns have made her students less resilient.
British police want greater surveillance powers and they’re willing to destroy everybody’s cybersecurity to get them.
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