What's in a number? To many, 81 percent is a success story. It's the nation's all-time-high rate for high school graduation in 2013, the most recent year of federal data . But the NPR Ed Team and reporters from member stations around the...
FACT: Parenting is really hard. Finland knows how to make it slightly easier. I have two children. Keeping them alive is something I haven't failed completely at. Yet. They both are still totally functioning. I haven't scarred them too badly. I...
Who do you think of when you think of public health? Maybe the epidemiologist, the clinic coordinator, the researcher, the program specialist who distributes mosquito nets in malaria-prone countries and pamphlets at health fairs. But...
What were you taught about drugs? GIF via Partnership for a Drug-Free America . Remember hearing about how even just trying an addictive drug once would mean you were hooked for good? GIF via The Meth Project . Well that's what Columbia...
He was initially convicted for armed robbery, but later accused of murdering a prison guard when a riot broke out. Woodfox has always maintained his innocence, adding that he was convicted because of his ties to the Black...
Many solutions are counterintuitive and so our problems are seldom solved. For example, when meeting a bear in the woods, our inclination is to run. The counterintuitive is the safest — freeze. Bears outrun humans. Similarly, people...
The State of Mississippi, which has the second-highest incarceration rate in the country, is in desperate need of quality prison guards. But it can’t seem to pay for them. The salaries are the lowest in the nation, at $24,670 a year,...
“We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out… There are situations in which it is more dangerous to keep your balance than to lose it.” “Something is always born of...
The genetic underpinnings of psychosis are elusive and diffuse. There are hundreds of common genetic mutations scattered throughout the human genome that each bump up by just a tiny bit the risk of developing a mental illness like...
Lots of people say they have trouble sleeping. And 1 in 10 Americans has chronic insomnia. Most often, sleep disorders are treated with medication. Between 6 and 10 percent of adults in the U.S. use sleeping pills. But a review of the medical...
Like sponges, children soak up the words spoken to them and are keen observers of how adults in their world behave. If those words are nurturing and supportive, and what they observe is kindness, compassion and respect, they will likely become...
Researchers studying the effects of marijuana faced an obstacle: they couldn't create an exact control group. But a change in drug laws in the Netherlands offered a perfect laboratory. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It can be difficult to study the effects...
Check out the list to see if a school district in your community has the following efforts underway: http://www2.ed.gov/programs/projectprevent/2014awards.html PROGRAM DESCRIPTION This program provides funding to LEAs to increase their capacity...
One in four people in the United States is living with a mental illness. That means that chances are high that the person sitting next to you on the subway suffers from one. Despite what you may have seen in movies and on TV,...
IT’S a subject we find hard to talk about, even though it kills more people in America than guns or cars and claims more lives than murder or suicide . I’m talking about drug overdoses, taking close to 44,000 lives a year. These...