Kids

An AP investigation has found an army of children toiling beneath a canopy of towering palm oil trees in Indonesia and Malaysia, the main suppliers of the vegetable oil.

Philly Reading Coaches is not letting the pandemic distract them from its academic mission. But it needs about 100 volunteers by January.

The Girl Scouts said the Boy Scouts’ marketing of expanded services for girls was “highly damaging to Girl Scouts” and had set off an “explosion of confusion."

Those results were consistent across the state, in urban and rural areas alike. And they remained evident in the second half of kindergarten.

For K-12 students this year, even with powder still coating parts of the region Thursday morning, the snow days of yore seem to be slipping into a tale from time’s past.

Providers are struggling as they navigate how to stay afloat financially while keeping the children they serve and their staffs safe.

The pandemic’s effects have rippled through child care, disproportionately affecting Black and Latino-owned centers in an industry that has long relied on providers of color.

With many schools and even doctor’s appointments virtual again, teachers and others must try new strategies to assess how safe a home situation might be.

Youth depression, anxiety and suicide attempts have been on the rise during the pandemic. School shutdowns keep kids from friends, leaving social growth up to parents.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of letters to Santa go through the USPS system, asking for everything from toys to food.

But even when those vaccines hit the market, they will not be available to children. That's because very few children have been part of the clinical trials to date.

On Wednesday, Apple bowed to the backlash, announcing it had teamed up with PBS for ad-free broadcasts of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Children now make up at least 1 in 11 of all reported U.S. coronavirus cases.

Contract tracing in Philadelphia, School Superintendent William Hite on revamping reopening plans amidst city COVID spikes, and the Eagles in the NFC East.

State officials are grateful to the facilities who stepped up for school-age kids, and have allocated $1 million in grants to help centers defray costs.