Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill passed in the Tennessee House of Representatives, pictured here, and the Senate will require schools to teach kids a ...

Tennessee's 'Nuclear Family Month' and 'Success Sequence' bills define who is legitimate, excluding many families.

Millennials can add better mental health to the list of reasons they should hit certain life milestones in a particular order, according to new research from the Institute for Family Studies. The ...

On May 26, a panel of experts discussed a new report published by AEI and the Institute for Family Studies on the effectiveness of the success sequence for minorities and low-income Americans. AEI’s W ...

Tennessee Republicans passed the Success Sequence Act to add instruction on a life plan shown to improve young adult outcomes. The success sequence involves graduating high school, working or pursuing ...

We’ve all heard of the "success sequence," right? This is the idea that if someone manages to achieve three things — finish high school, get a full-time job and get married before having kids — they ...

Does your kid know the sequence? Graduate, get a job, get married, then have kids. Research by Brookings in 2013 argued that teens who are poor can join the middle class if they follow those steps.

No two Ohioans’ life and career paths look the same. Every individual finds their own way. And what qualifies as “success” to one person might mean nothing to another. Ask any classroom teacher ...

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Many conservatives argue that the order in which a person achieves certain life milestones is key to their financial security. The point of the argument is to blame individuals for their poverty. At ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Tennessee public schools could soon be required to teach the "success sequence" — that the keys ...