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....
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded the Health Federation of Philadelphia $4.8 million to invest in promising community-level collaborative efforts that aim to reduce the prevalence and impact of early childhood adversity and to promote family...
NPR’s Gene Demby reveals an inspiring collaboration between an Alaskan tribal non-profit and a video developer in his interview with Amy Fredeen of the Cook Inlet Tribal Council and Sean Vesce of E-Line Media. In an effort to find a sustainable...
The idea that poverty can change the brain has gotten significant attention recently, and not just from those lay readers (a minority, according to recent research) who spend a lot of time thinking about neuroscience. Policy makers and others...
Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged last week that he initially underestimated the dysfunction that had allowed chronic violence and corruption to flourish at the Rikers Island jail complex, adding that he intended to make reforming this troubled system...
Lwandile Mnatanywa is zipping up his wetsuit. The tall, soft-spoken high school junior comes to Cape Town's Monwabisi Beach almost every day after school and starts running when he sees the water. "I can see the waves are cooking, I will run...
You can lead a child to vegetables, but can you make her eat them? A child, for instance, like Salem Tesfaye, a first-grader at Walker-Jones Educational Campus in Washington, D.C. Tesfaye picked up a lunch today that's full of nutrition:...
One Monday in 1988, El Mundo newspaper of Medellín, Colombia, reported, as it did every Monday, on the violent deaths in the city of two million people over the weekend. An article giving an hour-by-hour description of the deaths from...
Children living in the United States are entitled to a free public education, regardless of their or their parents' immigration status. In addition, migrant and refugee students experiencing homelessness are entitled to specific rights under the...
When people hear that I'm an emergency physician, they often ask, "What's the craziest thing you've ever seen?" TV shows frequently show ER doctors and nurses heroically saving people on the verge of death. Then there are news reports about...
The pastor’s phone rang in the midnight darkness. A man’s voice rasped: “My wife left me and I’ve got a shotgun in my mouth. Give me one reason why I shouldn’t pull the trigger.” The Rev. Matt Brogli, a...
BEHIND a half-century of policies to promote child development, there lies an assumption: that children are essentially equally affected by the environments they grow up in, and that positive interventions like preschool education should...
Portland’s Old Chinatown district, dotted with bars and nightclubs and full of alcohol-fueled revelry and accompanying police sirens on any given night, is an unlikely place to find a good night’s sleep. But just steps from the...
a Saturday night in the winter of 2012, W.P., a freshman at Princeton, was alone in his dorm room and couldn’t stop crying. He’d just had a conversation with his girlfriend that made him feel distant from her, and from everyone. He...
History may or may not repeat itself, but crisis-stricken politicians certainly do. Two weeks ago, Governor Jay Nixon, of Missouri, announced the swearing in of sixteen members of a commission to examine police procedures and community...