Fight for federal right to education takes a new turn
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
A new fight to secure a federal constitutional right to education is spreading across the country. This...
Countering misinformation about flu vaccine is harder than it seems
Matthew Motta, University of Pennsylvania; Dominik Stecula, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathryn Haglin, University of Pennsylvania
Many Americans hold beliefs about the flu vaccine that...
Smoking rates in US have fallen to all-time low, but how did they ever...
Richard Gunderman, Indiana University
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls cigarette smoking “the leading cause of preventable disease and death in...
George H.W. Bush laid the foundation for education reform
Jack Schneider, University of Massachusetts Lowell
George H.W. Bush fulfilled his desire – articulated late in his 1988 campaign for president – to be “the...
How where you’re born influences the person you become
Samuel Putnam, Bowdoin College and Masha A. Gartstein, Washington State University
As early as the fifth century, the Greek philosopher Thucydides contrasted the self-control and...
Forget lanes – we all need to head together toward preventing firearm injury
Michael Hirsh, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Many of us working in the “Gun Sense” field – that is, finding a middle ground position to...
Test prep is a rite of passage for many Asian-Americans
Julie J. Park, University of Maryland
When ACT released its latest test scores this past October, the results showed that average scores took a dip...
How local journalism can upend the ‘fake news’ narrative
Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon
“For the first time media is the least trusted institution globally,” Edelman, the global PR and marketing firm concluded in...
