Our systems are failing the potential and future of young people who experience foster care or homelessness. The Mockingbird Society is working to change that. Using its youth-adult partnership model, Mockingbird develops young people who have experienced foster care or homelessness into leaders and advocates who develop and advance policy reforms. Mockingbird’s youth advocates safely share their experiences as they advocate passionately for a brighter...

Hours away from Lijiang in the Ninglang Yi Autonomous County of Yunnan, 22-year-old Regina Xi gets an eye-opening experience in her volunteer stint at the Yi ethnic minority Xichuan Central School.

Journalist Dan Rather uncovers the poor state of Detroit Public Schools in Michigan. Investigating the mismanagement, deficit, and high turnover rates of superintendents via interviews with the school board, former superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, and Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, Rather discovers the situation is bleak in Detroit for the city's children. Over the course of eighteen months, Rather finds the failure of DPS to be a top-down...

When the popular girls club takes interest in Mia, she has to decide between being popular and her new cupcake club friends.

When a battle erupts on campus between the fans of two different televised cartoons, it is up to fourth-grade schemer Bernie Bridges to calm everyone down before Parents' Weekend, or risk being expelled.

Nikki and her friends team up for another adventure.

Jennifer Ecch is in love with Bernie Bridges and Bernie decides to become the nastiest, grossest, most disgusting kid in school to try to shake her interest. Bernie is planning to gross out Jennifer Ecch so he can go to the dance with April-May June.

When the magic wind turns fourth-grader Katie into her friend George, who has been playing practical jokes to liven up their school, she has to figure out how to get him out of trouble and sooth everyone's hurt feelings. When the magic wind turns fourth-grader Katie into her friend George, who has been playing practical jokes to liven up their school, she has to figure out how to get him out of trouble and soothe everyone's hurt feelings.

After years in foster homes, seventeen-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.

When a principal loves his school so much that he wants the children to attend classes every day of the year, it is up to his students to show him free time is a good thing, too.