Last spring, with the Ebola outbreak under control, students in Sierra Leone returned to school after a months-long hiatus. But absent from the classrooms were several thousand adolescent girls. A law that went into effect in April bars...
Traditionally, kids who are disruptive in class get a few warnings and then get sent to the office. However, those children might be going through traumatic life experiences outside of school that are causing the behavior. In January,...
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today said the state should consider treating young offenders as juveniles until they are 21 years old, a cutting-edge reform proposal. “You can commit a nonviolent offense at 17 without a criminal...
I work some days from a small office in San Francisco, and every day, I gotta eat. For a stretch of several weeks this year, I obtained my lunch from an iPhone app called Sprig. It’s a beautiful piece of software. A trompe l’oeil...
Project Longevity , a program aimed at reducing violence by gang and group members, has had a positive impact in reducing shootings and homicides in New Haven, according to a study by Yale University sociologists. ...
A new report on sexual abuse within the American military sheds light on male rape and assault—and how little is actually known about the issue. Rates of military sexual trauma among men may be as much as 15 times higher...
Instead of arresting people accused of low-level drug crimes, Fayetteville police are about to adopt a program that aims to get them the treatment and services they need. The program's primary goal is to help nonviolent drug abusers become...
A Bay Area teen and a long-time cop have an open conversation about police brutality Hello Carl , Thanks for kudos on graduating from high school! It was definitely the most exciting thing that’s happened in my life thus far....
More than three quarters of wounded veterans are dealing with some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Wounded Warrior Project. More than 23,000 injured service members completed the 2015 Wounded Warrior Project Alumni...
The U.S. is grappling with a severe shortage of mental health professionals. But the situation is particularly dire for some minority communities, where barriers of language and culture can make it hard to seek and get help. Most good...
In October a video showing a senior deputy yank a student from her seat and flip her desk at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina went viral on the Internet. This incident gained wide national attention and demonstrates the need for...
We know that young offenders are different from adults and that incarcerating them perpetuates cycles of trauma and inequality that do us all more harm than good. As Congress considers pending juvenile justice reforms, such as the landmark Juvenile...
Putting oneself out of business is generally not sound career advice. But that’s exactly what Kevin Bethel, the deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department, said he hopes to do through the department’s school...
Dr. Roberta Miller hits the road at 8 a.m. to see her patients. Many are too old or sick to go to the doctor. So the doctor comes to them. She's put 250,000 miles on her Honda minivan going to their homes in upstate New York. Home visits make a...
Ask Victor Lopez, a 17-year-old transgender male, what it was like when he got his period at the age of 8, and he’ll tell you a wrenching story about locking himself in his room for hours, crying and hiding from his family. Just getting...