Mar 11th, 2005 · On Saturday, more than 300,000 teenagers will sit down to take the new SAT test -- longer and more difficult than its predecessors, and for the first including a mandatory essay. The changes are making students more anxious than ever, and creating a boom for the test-preparation business.
Mar 2nd, 2005 · Car crashes are the No. 1 killer of teenagers. Safety experts are now asking if they can make teens drive more carefully by monitoring their cars with video cameras or other gadgets. But some parents don't want to play traffic cop, and teens don't like being spied on.
Feb 21st, 2005 · When Space Shuttle Columbia's mission ended in tragedy, a piece of history was rediscovered. An Israeli astronaut on Columbia had taken a drawing into space, a view of Earth, as seen from the moon. The scene was imagined by a teenager who didn't live to see the moon landings. The young artist was Petr Ginz, who died in a Nazi concentration camp. Since the Columbia disaster, the boy's wartime diaries resurfaced, and they've now been published in the Czech Republic. Katerina Zachovalova reports.
Feb 6th, 2005 · Host Jennifer Ludden looks at how the credit card industry markets to teenagers. Legally, banks may not issue credit cards to minors, but solicitations for cards often go out to kids under 18. It seems the card issuers are counting on parents to bail their kids out when they overcharge.
Feb 2nd, 2005 · The eloquent, effortless jazz singer Jimmy Scott has gained a new prominence after languishing for decades, the victim of bad deals, bad timing and a fickle public. But he's never lost the energy and humanity that put him on the road to fame as a teenager.
Jan 19th, 2005 · There's a new approach to treating teenage depression -- something that one out of every five teenagers experiences by age 18. A new study suggests that one way to help is to involve kids' primary physicians in identifying symptoms.
Jan 19th, 2005 · Youth Radio reporter Belia Mayeno reflects on her experience as a teenager living with bouts of severe manic depression.
Jan 18th, 2005 · From boot camps to wilderness training, some parents now choose therapeutic schools to help their troubled teenagers. We discuss why young people get into trouble and the tactics their parents turn to, to get -- and keep -- their teens on track. Guests: David Marcus, author, What it Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and How Four of Them Got Out Ben, 18 years old, graduated in 2002 from The Academy at Swift River, a boarding school for troubled adolescents, in Cummington, Mass.; one of teens profiled in David Marcus's book Laurence Steinberg,professor of psychology, Temple University; author, Ten Basic Principles of Good Parenting