My favorite subject is writing to heal trauma. In this article, author Suzette Martinize Standring interviewed me about this topic. And as those of us who have read or are reading Childhood Disrupted - we know Donna Jackson Nakazawa...
Cat Kim, a recent graduate from Columbia Law School, had two missions this summer. One was studying for and taking the California bar exam. The other was preparing cases for immigrant women and children in Texas detention centers who, without...
People whose diabetes requires insulin injections usually have to make a series of visits to the doctor's office to fine-tune their daily dosage. But many low-income patients can't afford to take those few hours off to see the doctor. As a...
A year after demonstrations in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson launched the Black Lives Matter movement, some of the most prominent voices in the campaign to reform policing in the United States introduced a detailed list of specific...
Officer Jon Carson lights up when he speaks about teaching mindfulness techniques to officers with the York Regional Police . "My goal for policing is to say, here's a tool for you. You have all these other things on your belt. You...
Erin Okuno erin@allfivesinfive.org It feels like equity is the new buzzword. It has become the new “diversity.” My question is, “How are you defining equity?” I ask because it feels like we have different definitions. I...
With the Obama administration focused on reducing the number of suspensions, expulsions and arrests in public schools , a new analysis of federal data identifies districts in 13 Southern states where black students are suspended or...
Today's workforce is highly sex-segregated -- for example, most elementary school teachers are women, while most chemistry professors are men. Indiana University Bloomington researchers Bianca Manago, a doctoral student in sociology, and Cate...
The University of Washington's Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will lead the largest clinical trial ever involving rural Americans with a psychiatric disorder. One thousand primary-care patients with post-traumatic stress...
owing up in wealthy Marin County, Yaqueline Rodas didn't know many people like herself: a young immigrant from Guatemala in the country without legal status. She knew even fewer political activists. So it was with amazement and a little anxiety...
Michigan has more reasons now than ever before to consider juvenile justice reform. Something to add to the list: a report released this week by the U.S. Department of Justice. The report zeroes in on what deters kids from...
On June 29th, their last day before summer vacation, the nine Supreme Court Justices declared they would hear arguments in case number 14-981, Fisher v. University of Texas, this fall, with a decision to follow in early 2016 ....
In a state proud of its reputation for "hang 'em high" Texas justice, closing the school-to-prison pipeline has long seemed next to impossible. For years, Texas prosecuted more kids for missing school than all other states combined. In 2013,...
C57BL/6J mice are black, with pink ears and long pink tails. Inbred for the purposes of experimentation, they exhibit a number of infelicitous traits, including a susceptibility to obesity, a taste for morphine, and a tendency to nibble off...
On the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in 2010, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu preached unity. “With the rising water, differences and divisions were washed away,” he said, asking the audience to listen to each other, and...