In US households that earn $100,000 or more per year, 64% of children age three or four attend preschool. In US households making less than $50,000, only 40% of kids are getting education before kindergarten. That’s a 24 percentage-point...
When children demonstrate self-control, it's a strong indicator of later educational and economic success. But even for kids who can't resist immediate gratification, self-control is a skill that can be taught. Economics correspondent Paul Solman...
Here’s more evidence that treatment is often more effective than incarceration for young offenders. Most offenders ages 10 to 18 with mental health and behavioral problems who were diverted from detention centers to a treatment program in Ohio...
Next month, communities across the nation will once again estimate the number of people experiencing homelessness, in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual point-in-time count. If yours is one of them, you may be looking for...
“Bullying Prevalence Across Contexts: A Meta-analysis Measuring Cyber and Traditional Bullying,” Kathryn L. Modecki, Jeannie Minchin, Allen G. Harbaugh, Nancy Guerra, and Kevin C. Reunions. The Journal of Adolescent Health, Vol. 55, Issue...
MANY of my friends were shocked some years ago when I cut down on my junk-food intake. Even my wise old physician was a little put out. He had more or less given me the green light to the “golden arches” a few years before when, one...
The reconstruction of the juvenile justice system may take longer than five years and probably won’t require learning woodworking, but there is much to celebrate and much to do. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has declared the state’s...
Women with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a two-fold increased risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a new study. “When we are under stress we are more likely to get sick, but women with PTSD are in this extreme...
Pennsylvania prison inmates diagnosed with serious mental illness will be diverted to special treatment units instead of being punished by placement in isolated cells, under the terms of a settlement between the Corrections Department and...
The gold standard, for those seeking to make real improvement in children’s lives, is to provide the right intervention at the right time in the right place for the right child. But how do you achieve this when children differ so much?...
They found George D. Carter III shot dead in the middle of Piety Street in the Desire neighborhood, just as a fine fall morning dawned. Only 15 years old, Carter had already made a big impression in his native city, working since the age of...
For the nearly two decades that Charles lived on the streets of Washington, D.C., the nation’s elite hustled past him with their eyes mostly averted. They saw only a homeless crack addict, not a man carrying a weight that finally dragged...
A dozen years ago, City Journal, the quarterly magazine of The Manhattan Institute, published "The Black Cops You Never Hear About" by Heather Mac Donald, one of the sharpest, most eloquent, and zealous defenders of New York City's police...
When people talk about abuse in nursing homes, they generally are referring to staff members victimizing the elderly. But researchers say an even more pressing, prevalent problem might be the violence that can — and does — erupt...
The kid started smoking at 5 and drinking at 8. He ran away over and over, fought in the streets, and robbed strangers and neighbors alike. He slashed his teachers' tires, threw things at cops, and vandalized train tracks. Sounds like a...