Tag: US Schools
Schools are the ‘hubs and hearts’ of neighborhoods – here’s how...
Alisha Butler, Wesleyan University
Food deserts. Poor housing conditions. Lack of community investment.
These challenges may...
The lasting consequences of school shootings on the students who survive...
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University; Bokyung Kim, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts; Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University; Marika Cabral,...
The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before...
Roy Jones, Clemson University
When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme...
How universal childhood trauma screenings could backfire
David Finkelhor, University of New Hampshire
It is well established that child maltreatment and other childhood adversities are associated with poor outcomes later on in...
Why the nation should screen all students for trauma like California...
Sunny Shin, Virginia Commonwealth University
As the first person to hold the new role of Surgeon General of California, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is pushing...
Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
The number of U.S. children age 4 to 17 practicing yoga rose from 2.3% to 8.4% – or from 1.3...
Are America’s teachers really underpaid?
Michael Addonizio, Wayne State University
In the spring of 2018, thousands of public school teachers walked out of their classrooms in a half-dozen states, protesting...
We need more teachers of color, so why do we use...
Emery Petchauer, Michigan State University
Students of color seldom see teachers who look like them. This is because many aspiring teachers of color are pushed...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
