Everyone knows the best way to prevent tooth decay is by brushing and flossing every day. But not everyone – especially within the education community – recognizes the growing body of research that shows the best way to improve...
The teaching of yoga in Encinitas public schools does not represent an illegal attempt at religious indoctrination, an appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the San Diego...
The grin on Mayte Hernandez's face was almost as big as the one on her yellow smiley face T-shirt during an recent talent show and picnic that Emergence Health Network put on for people with an intellectual/developmental disability — or...
As a theatrical improviser, I’ve experienced workshops and shows where, after initial horseplay, people who hardly know each other share intimate autobiographical details, sometimes on a brightly lit stage. Where does this striking...
Monday night's NCAA men's basketball final will attract millions of viewers. One player on Duke's team — Sean Obi — hails from Nigeria. He's not the only African player who has enjoyed a successful hoops career in the U.S. The most famous...
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, much has been rebuilt in New Orleans — including the public schools. But the current education system is radically different from the one that people who grew up in New Orleans remember. Virtually all students...
This week the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued its damning report about the journalistic lapses by Rolling Stone magazine when it published a salacious, and now-discredited, story about a supposed gang rape at a University of...
When the RYSE Center opened its doors in 2008 in Richmond, CA, says Kanwarpal Dhaliwal , community health director and a RYSE co-founder (and ACEsConnection member), staff members didn’t talk about complex trauma per se, but they...
The science of DNA revolutionized the understanding of crime and wrongful convictions. Now, to deal with the contagion of violence in cities and to build stronger relationships and trust between police and the people they serve, the training of...
Aerobic exercise might boost memory and thinking skills in people with schizophrenia, a small study finds. The research included 33 schizophrenia patients who were randomly assigned to receive one of two treatments. One group was given standard...
It is notoriously difficult for social scientists to study people who have recently left prison. They move often, don’t have stable phone numbers, rarely hold steady jobs, and often end up back behind bars. Large surveys like the U.S. census are...
The boy loved to walk in the woods. He savored the gurgle of the creek as the water tumbled over the rocks, the sweet melody of birdsong, the wind rustling the leaves in the trees that soared high overhead. It seems a faraway place to him now...
Do Alcoholics Anonymous participants do better at abstinence than nonparticipants because they are more motivated? Or is it because of something inherent in the A.A. program? How researchers answered these questions in a recent study offers...
How is it that a delightful child can turn overnight into a sullen, explosive, risk-taking adolescent? Jensen, a neurologist and mother of two sons, and Nutt, a Washington Post science writer, explore the biology of the teenage brain, in an...
“How are you feeling?” Those are the four deceptively simple words with which my colleagues and I regularly begin our meetings and our training sessions at other organizations. People ask the question to each other, one at a time....