At Noblesville High School, student journalists were discouraged. They had tried for weeks to get a story about teen drug abuse published in the school newspaper without success. Administrators didn't like the story, but students couldn't understand why. At Columbus North High School, it was a different story. The newspaper staff, with the approval of the principal, was able to publish a sensitive, well-researched story about the realities of oral sex among teens.

Children's Express burst on the scene at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, when a 13-year-old reporter scooped the national media with Jimmy Carter's choice of Walter F. Mondale as his running mate. And in 1988, it was an 11-year-old Children's Express reporter who discomfited Dan Quayle with a question about whether a girl raped by her father should be able to get an abortion. That year, t

Many kids ride the bus to school every day, but they may never think of the vehicle's impact on their community. They might know that some motorists get annoyed if a bus gets in their path, but who would ever think a bus could affect someone's health? Until 2002, Katy Dean did not give much thought to the school buses in her hometown of Utica, Mich. Dean, a junior, was sports editor of her high sc