“How come Garrett does not want to talk to me?” Grover, the blue-haired Muppet, asks Garrett’s big sister, Angelina. The 4-year-old Garrett and his twin AJ have autism and are more interested in their snacks and Lego bricks...
The difference between what the rich and poor eat in America begins long before a baby can walk, or even crawl. A team of researchers at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences found considerable differences in the solid...
A new report released Wednesday by the student advocacy group Education Trust-West calls for an increased focus on helping black students thrive in California schools. Called “Black Minds Matter: Supporting the...
The test emphasis in education is finally failing. Here's a long-proven alternative developed by Dr. James P. Comer of Yale University. For over 40 years, Dr. Comer’s program has shown that in order to help...
Healthy People 2020 identifies positive youth development (PYD) as a major new approach for interventions, describing it as “the intentional process of providing all youth with the support, relationships, experiences,...
Giving kids a healthy and happy childhood can improve their health and well-being for the rest of their lives. That’s according to a report released this week by the Trust for America’s Health, which outlines 40 ways to...
Nearly 60 million people are currently displaced from their homes by war and persecution — more than at any time since World War II. Half are children. This multimedia journey in text, photographs and virtual reality...
When Victor Carrion , MD, was a pediatric psychiatry fellow in the mid-1990s, he had an “a-ha” moment about some of his poorly behaved patients that set the trajectory of his career. These kids had been traumatized, and the...
n the United States, the metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a convenient and damning fiction. Here's a passage from the Census Bureau defining an MSA: Under the standards, the county (or counties) in which at least 50 percent of...
A high-school girl who refuses to follow school rules is body-slammed to the ground, ripped from her chair, and thrown past rows of desks. The school resource officer’s use of force, caught on video, unleashes national outrage and costs...
The plight of babies born to parents who cannot raise them, whether for financial, emotional or other reasons, is older than Moses. Solutions to such problems are rarely anything other than heartbreaking, but in the past decade laws have been...
The headlines and sound bites described behavior gone wrong — a teenager in a South Carolina classroom refusing to put away her cellphone and a police officer using physical force to respond to a nonthreatening situation. He arrested her...
Two Princeton economists startled other Americans — and themselves — when they uncovered a trend that had escaped the medical and scientific world: Between 1999 and 2013, white middle-aged men and women in the United States,...
Johnny Gonzales kneels next to his client, Jorje Mendez, who is struggling through the last set of pushups at the gym. "Give me eight of them!" says Gonzales. "Be strict. This is where all the gains are made, right here. If you can do this, you...
Children are much more likely than not to grow up in a household in which their parents work, and in nearly half of all two-parent families today, both parents work full time, a sharp increase from previous decades. What hasn’t...