“Provider Perceptions of Safety Planning with Children Impacted by Intimate Partner Violence” (abstract). Evette Horton, Christine E. Murray, Bethany Garr, Lori Notestine, Paulina Flasch, Catherine Higgins Johnson. Children and Youth...
To get to Rikers Island, visitors must catch the Q100 bus, which winds through Queens and makes its final stop near the base of the heavily guarded Rikers Island Bridge. The jail, which sits in the East River, a stone’s hurl from the...
The last thing most parents want is to be told how to discipline their children. But the case of Adrian Peterson, the Minnesota Vikings football star who was indicted after hitting his 4-year-old son with a switch, has generated a national discussion...
While the influence of heritable factors on the development of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) has been documented in family pedigree and twin studies for decades, identification of specific genetic variants that influence AUDs continues to be...
Any teacher can tell you anecdotally that what happens outside the classroom has a huge impact on how students do in school and in life. Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has explored the brain science and public health research that’s now driving...
Even though schools across California offer similar amounts of instructional time each week, and instructional days during the school year, students in high poverty schools get far less time for actual learning. That is a principal finding of a...
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) has released the first guidelines for training physicians to care for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), gender nonconforming, or born with differences of sex development...
A study conducted by the UC San Diego Physician Assessment and Clinical Education program (PACE) found that childhood adversity could potentially play a role in a physician’s later professional relationships. The findings were published...
Everyone loves it what a great plan comes together - but for more complex topics what is required is coming together to formulate a plan. If you are looking for excellent resources that are free and would assist you or the professionals you know are...
One of the hallmarks of a great 21st Century learning environment is that it is far more permeable in terms of two-way communication with parents, community members, and students than ever thought possible. This has also presented great challenges for...
When you read about the characteristics of highly effective teachers, you also see that they are high "affective" as well. Their passion for learning is evident, their love of students even more so. Consider Karen Krantz who teaches in...
[A report by Louise Godbold, Co-Executive Director of Echo Parenting & Education.] Could it actually work? That is the question we've been asking ourselves ever since starting our Trauma-Informed, Nonviolent Whole School pilot project at Sally Ride Elementary. Not out loud, of course, but in the dead of the night when the overwhelming nature of transforming a whole school community on a modest budget in less than one year seems difficult at best, sheer lunacy at worst.
As far back as I can remember the concept of race has played a significant role in my life. My mother has told me that one night while I was reading an American Girl Doll book about “Addy,” an African-American girl who was a...
Jairo Gomez is 17 years old and lives in a tiny apartment in New York City with eight other family members. He has grown up in poverty, like one-third of all kids in the city. With WNYC's program Radio Rookies, Gomez tells the story of how...
E x posure to secondhand smoke and roadway traffic may be tied to increased body mass index in children and adolescents, a new study suggests. Researchers studied 3,318 children in 12 Southern California communities beginning at an average age...