Last week, during widespread protests of the grand jury decision in St. Louis, one phrase showed up on protest signs all over the country, and got lots of play on social media: Black Lives Matter.
A report on how cash-squeezed counties offset the costs of youth incarceration by charging parents — including one mother who’s on the hook for more than $7,500 in fees, even though her child has passed away.
On May 14, 2014, TheAtlantic.com published Youth Radio’s report “Some Kids Get Charged Twice For One Crime.” The piece is…
What’s out with teens in the social media space is important to investors — but why? Teens aren’t rolling in disposable income, after all. But 16-year-old Jasiri Emerson says teens are the most avid users of social media.
Now that more schools are wired, and a generation of teachers is going online to download tools that help them teach, old models are being upended.
Though it’s administered on a much smaller scale than its parent Launch Festival, the Launch Education and Kids Conference should be…
About 18 months ago, novice entrepreneur Sue Khim flew to San Francisco from her home in Illinois to take part in an uncommonly public version of a Silicon Valley rite of passage — the pitch. With thousands of other young techies in the audience, she was scheduled to be onstage at the Launch Festival, a showcase for “stealth” startups that have managed to keep their products out of the voracious tech press, or have as-yet-unreleased products to announce.
Khim’s presentation knocked it out of the park, bagging $75k for Alltuition, a “Turbo Tax for student loans.”
Though it’s administered on a much smaller scale than its parent Launch Festival, the Launch Education and Kids Conference should be…
Jacob Blackstock first conceived of the burgeoning social comics site Bitstrips as a way to let the rest of the Internet participate…
