youth
Avatars develop real world skills
New research suggests that far from disengaging young people from real life, virtual worlds can provide unique environments that can help them learn and negotiate new situations. Academics on the Inter-Life project, which was funded by the Economic an…
Homework wars: How can parents improve the odds of winning?
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Children are more likely to do their homework if they see it as an investment, not a chore, according to new research at the University of Michigan.
Most children in the United States say they expect to go to college, but th…
Psychiatric Disorders Common Among Detained Youth
Among teens in juvenile detention, nearly two thirds of boys and nearly three quarters of girls have at least one psychiatric disorder, a federally funded study has found. These rates dwarf the estimated 15 percent of youth in the general population thought to have psychiatric illness, placing detained teens on a par with those at highest risk, such as maltreated and runaway youth.