With a big push from the state’s new approach to education spending, many California school districts appear to be ramping up investments in positive approaches to discipline. The majority of the 50 largest school districts have included...
In December 2006, Tondalo Hall’s boyfriend pled guilty to breaking the ribs and femur of their 3-month-old daughter. For his crime, Robert Braxton Jr. served two years in prison. In court, prosecutors presented no evidence that Hall...
"I really don't like the term 'PTSD, Department of Veterans Affairs psychiatrist Dr. Jonathan Shay told PBS' "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly " in 2010. "He says the diagnostic definition of "post-traumatic stress disorder" is a fine description of certain instinctual survival skills that persist into everyday life after a person has been in mortal danger but the definition doesn't address the entirety of a person's injury after the trauma of war. "I view...
Research has shown that effective early childhood programs can have dramatic impacts on the lives of high-needs children. Now, innovative financing mechanisms are harnessing the power of investments in early childhood, providing new funding sources to...
Child care is expensive – second only to the mortgage or rent in the average family budget. Infant care is more expensive than in-state public college tuition in 31 states. And costs to parents have nearly doubled in the last 25...
Shortly after he started the California Innocence Project, Justin Brooks received a letter from an inmate — one of thousands the organization would receive over the next 15 years asking for help. It came from Michael Hanline, who had been...
In an effort to reduce the growing number of inmates with mental health and substance abuse problems in New York City’s jails, the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans on Monday to significantly expand public health...
Of the Twin Cities' tony western suburbs, Edina is arguably the toniest. Home to professional athletes and Fortune 500 CEOs, the town has a reputation for snobbery; its name is said to be an acronym for, among other things, Every Day I Need...
There is something of a sea change in the way we understand experiences that have traditionally been labelled as psychotic. In our culture at least, experiences such as hearing voices or seeing visions have long been viewed by the medical...
The idea that our more distressing emotions such as grief and anger can best be understood as symptoms of physical illnesses is pervasive and seductive. But in my view it is also a myth, and a harmful one. Our present approach to helping...
A thought-provoking read in Scientific American by Peter Kinderman, a distinguished professor of clinical psychology at the University of Liverpool, who challenges the disease model of mental illness. He argues that mental health services should be...
When Frank Serpico, the most famous police whistleblower of his generation, reflected on years of law-enforcement corruption in the New York Police Department, he assigned substantial blame to a commissioner who failed to hold rank-and-file...
In keeping with the Christian theme of her self-serving apology, Elizabeth Lauten has blessedly resigned from her post as the communications director for Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher (R-Tenn.). She had said prayer showed her the error of her ways,...
Ron Haskins, a preschool expert who co-directs the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institute, says the movement is symptomatic of the country’s failure to reduce poverty and stymie growing inequality. Pre-k is seen as a solution...
She sits alone in a cinder-block cell, an Oglala Lakota teenager with a long braid and tattoos. For five months she has been locked up on this remote prairie reservation for drinking and disorderly conduct. When she behaves, she can watch television....