The hidden homelessness among America’s high school students
Stacey Havlik, Villanova University
One in 30.
That’s what a new first-of-its-kind study found was the number of students ages 13 to 17 who have experienced...
A grim year for the smartphone: 5 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
The year 2017 marked the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. Five years ago, for the first time, over 50 percent of...
Why your child’s preschool teacher should have a college degree
Anne Douglass, University of Massachusetts Boston
How much education does a preschool teacher need?
When the District of Columbia announced in March that it would require...
Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?
Kenneth Cusi, University of Florida
Gyms across the country will be packed in the new year with people sticking, however briefly, to their New Year’s...
Career ready’ out of high school? Why the nation needs to let go of...
Anthony P. Carnevale, Georgetown University; Andrew R. Hanson, Georgetown University, and Megan Fasules, Georgetown University
Unlike old-fashioned vocational education, high school-level career and technical education...
The holiday-suicide myth and the intractability of popular falsehoods
Dan Romer, University of Pennsylvania
For years, the media have reported that more suicides occur during the holidays than at any other time.
Many of...
What psychiatrists have to say about holiday blues
Linda Saab, Wayne State University and Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State University
This time of the year brings a lot of changes to the usual day-to-day...
Literature has long been sounding the alarm about sexual violence in Hollywood
Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
Recent revelations about Hollywood’s culture of sexual harassment and violence might come as a surprise to many Americans.
After all,...
