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Summer Job Outlook Bleak for Teens
Tweet Share on Facebook June 6, 2011 Comment (3)Summer job hiring is off to a slow start for people ages 16-19, according to new employment numbers from the government.
Between April and May, 71,000 jobs were added for teens. While still an increase from the 6,000 jobs added in 2010 between those two months, the overall number of young people with jobs is still down from 2010. Steep decreases in teen employment over the past 12 months mean 159,000 fewer 16-to-19-year-olds are employed than in May 2010, when more than 4.3 million teens had jobs.
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Cyber Bullying Growing More Malicious, Experts Say
Tweet Share on Facebook June 3, 2011 Comment (15)Over the past several years, high-profile cases of cyber bullying—like those that resulted in suicides by teens Tyler Clementi and Phoebe Prince—have pushed the issue to the forefront of America's consciousness. But experts disagree on the prevalence of cyber bullying, who's responsible for preventing it, and even how to define it.
In the past, students and parents have been concerned with cyber bullies who made threats on sites like Facebook or Myspace, spread online rumors or scandalous pictures, or stole passwords to e-mail and social networking accounts, says cyberlaw expert Parry Aftab, who was honored by Congress in 2005 for her work in cyber safety. But bullies have gotten more complex and malicious as Internet access becomes more accessible with the rise of cheap, Internet-enabled mobile devices and as social networking becomes more intertwined with students' everyday lives.
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Major Corporations Promote STEM Education
Tweet Share on Facebook June 1, 2011 Comment (2)The Dow Chemical Co. has created products such as plastic bags, water purifiers, and military weapons for more than 100 years, but the company is worried that America's science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education crisis might leave it understaffed.
"We need not only the workforce to produce [our products], but [also] a society that understands how science and chemistry are important and won't be frightened by new products," says Bo Miller, president and executive director for the Dow Chemical Company Foundation, the community outreach arm of the company.
