It was just a regular morning in my classroom in Manhattan’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood. My third graders were heading back to their seats for math when John “accidentally” hit a classmate with a chair. John loudly and...
The brains of babies 'light up' in a very similar way to adults when exposed to the same painful stimulus, a pioneering Oxford University brain scanning study has discovered. It suggests that babies experience pain much like adults. The study...
For women, the freedom to move around cities comes with caveats. Every time we go out, we make a set of complex calculations to avoid sexual harassment, assault, or worse. Here are just some of the questions women everywhere ask themselves...
Today is Equal Pay Day, which marks how far into the year the average American woman must work to earn what her male counterpart earned last year. The pay gap, for full-time, year-round workers, currently stands at 78 cents to the dollar and...
Recently, an item popped up on Yahoo!News about Candice Bergen. It was an item I’d read before — about how her Father, Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist to Charlie McCarthy — had left his daughter out of his will. Bergen, it seems,...
At the 33rd Annual National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) conference, I learned about a documentary being produced on the history of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Blood Memory Project has a trailer available for viewing: ...
By Andrea Blanch and David Shern In Kansas City, local leaders have created an innovative vision for a healthier community . Healthy KC is a partnership of the local Chamber of Commerce, KC Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and a number of...
The tragic murders last year of two Vermont toddlers, Dezirae Sheldon and Peighton Geraw, shocked and saddened all Vermonters. Several reviews of the circumstances of those deaths followed, offering important recommendations. Each review...
Some states routinely violate a 1974 federal law designed to protect youths accused of juvenile offenses because of U.S. Department of Justice lack of oversight and enforcement, Sen. Charles E. Grassley said today. “Last year, multiple...
The transition to adulthood marks a big turning point in life for everyone, but for young people on the autism spectrum that transition can be really tough. Young adults with autism had lower employment rates and higher rates of complete social...
It's been more than 20 years since passage of the landmark Family and Medical Leave Act, which allows workers to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid time off for medical or family reasons without losing their jobs. Some workers' advocates and...
Despite decades of political debate, racial disparities continue to run rampant in American schools. One particularly important imbalance: the race gap in school discipline, especially suspension rates. Now, researchers have discovered an...
When high school sophomore Mykia Moore got into an argument with her best friend over a boy last year at Augustus Hawkins High School in South Los Angeles, the dispute quickly escalated into a physical fight. “She thought I wanted her...
IT’S been called “America’s most ‘open’ secret”: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, around 80,000 women and men a year are sexually abused in American correctional facilities. That number is almost...
Asylum-seeking mothers held in detention with their children at a for-profit facility in South Texas have initiated a second protest fast and work stoppage calling for their release. The women have all passed what is known as the credible fear...