Christine Ellenwood hid the first two letters from her Spokane high school last fall, warning her that skipping class was against the law. She was living with her older brother and didn’t want him to know she had missed so much school...
Segregated schools have been a concern in San Diego since at least 1977, when a Superior Court judge found that 23 district schools were so racially isolated they deprived black and Latino students of their equal right to a quality...
Your chest is tight, your breathing is shallow, you might feel dizzy, tingly, or "other worldly". You're asking yourself "Am I going crazy? Am I dying?" The answer to both of those questions is "No". I know from experience. My anxiety was so...
I am not some serene creature who can’t understand revenge. In my everyday life, in low-stakes situations, I can relate to the urge to get back at someone. But when it comes to unthinkable violence – to these moments in Beirut or...
Please take a moment and watch LoveStruck , a national documentary on domestic violence that was recently released on YouTube. It includes a focus on Camp HOPE America and the visionary work and leadership of Casey Gwinn,...
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Robotics teams, top-notch theater programs, a flock of seniors off to elite universities each year - Palo Alto Senior High School and Henry M. Gunn High School in Silicon Valley are the kinds of schools parents dream about....
Music can provide a space for healing, feeling and thought. Following the terrorist attacks in Paris, including at a show in that city's Bataclan concert hall, we were compelled to play music with a meditative tone, songs that allow space and...
Nearly one-fourth of the people currently in the Bexar County jail are believed to be suffering from some type of mental illness. Tuesday, county commissioners took action to help those with mental illness get out of the jail system and get...
In the United States, a baby is born dependent on opiates every 30 minutes. In Tennessee, the rate is three times the national average. The drug withdrawal in newborns is called neonatal abstinence syndrome , or NAS, which can occur when...
“I am a leader.” “I am not ghetto.” “I am not incapable of being interested in mathematics and the sciences.” “I am destined for great things.” As part of a new school reform...
On the morning of Keon Clark's 34th day in jail, he rode a bus packed with other inmates, past scrap yards and factories along the Mississippi River, to another jail in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. When the bus arrived, a sheriff escorted the...
Maybe the most important job when considering releasing a violent psychiatric patient is deciding whether that patient is going to hurt somebody else once they're out. Unfortunately, according to a paper published in PLoS One,...
If Baltimore seems hardwired for racial strife and segregation , that’s partly because the banks there have programmed it that way. Baltimore has a long history of redlining , in which financial institutions refuse to offer...
On Sept. 6, I locked myself out of my apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. I was in a rush to get to my weekly soccer game, so I decided to go enjoy the game and deal with the lock afterward. A few hours and a visit from a locksmith later, I was...
How a mother responds to her baby’s cries can make a big difference in the child’s ability to learn, develop, and thrive. While a warm, supportive response can help the baby calm down and feel secure, a distant or...