The reason that kids take chances when they drive is not because they're ignorant. It's because other things undermine their better judgment.

Life without parole for kids presumes that they can't be changed.

The public probably knows that teen drivers are at greater risk for fatal accidents. What the public doesn't know is what we ought to do about it.

The older you are, the more hours you can withstand without seeing harmful effects. But generally, no [teen] age group does well over 20 hours per week.

We are not very good at looking at people when they are 16 and predicting what they will be like when they are 30. We know there is a huge drop in violent crime after age 24 or 25.

If you have these four things, it doesn't matter what ethnic group you're from, you'll do well in school, ... It's just more common among Asian kids and less common among black and Latino kids.