This Land Was Promised for Housing. Instead It’s Going to a Pro Soccer Team Owned by a Billionaire. by Mick Dumke, ProPublica; Video by Nick Blumberg, WTTW/Chicago PBS ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When thousands of families […]
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Video – Charting the Path for Alzheimer’s Prevention
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States Fight Student Mental Health Crisis With Days Off
2022-06-14 States Fight Student Mental Health Crisis With Days Off Giles Bruce SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Linnea Sorensen falls into a funk whenever her girlfriend of four years leaves for her six-month stints with the Marines, and the high school junior has trouble concentrating on her class work. “I’m somebody who struggles with my […]
Decades after special education law and key ruling, updates still languish
Decades after special education law and key ruling, updates still languish Learning support teachers such as Sabrina Werley are common, but schools’ services can vary widely. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Charles J. Russo, University of Dayton It has been 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court first took up a case about […]
How to Make an Impact Through Volunteering and Civic Engagement
How to Make an Impact Through Volunteering and Civic Engagement (StatePoint) If you’re like many people right now, you’re feeling a particular sense of urgency to roll up your sleeves and be a force for good. “When we face difficult times, as we have during the pandemic and now with the war […]
Lawmaker Takes on Insurance Companies
2022-06-13 Lawmaker Takes on Insurance Companies and Gets Personal About His Health Samantha Young SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Scott Wiener made a startling revelation at a spring legislative committee hearing: “I was in the hospital. I experienced the most intense abdominal pain that I could even imagine.” The Democratic state senator recalled crawling up […]
In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin
2022-06-13 In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin by Kata Karath Name Karen Topa Pila looks around the windowless reception area in the small health care station of Hoja Blanca, Ecuador, its pale yellow walls stained with patches of mold. “When did the electricity go out last night?” Topa Pila, a […]
New Research: ADHD Meds Don’t Improve Classroom Learning
2022-06-13 ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research Children with ADHD struggle academically. Upyanose / Getty Images William E. Pelham, Jr., Florida International University For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when […]
Children’s Vision Problems Often Go Undetected
2022-06-12 Children’s Vision Problems Often Go Undetected, Despite Calls for Regular Screening Colleen DeGuzman Jessica Oberoi, 13, can’t exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn’t until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, […]
Taking a Chance on Healthy Living!
Taking a Chance on Healthy Living! By: Dan Farrell One of the most important aspects of living a healthy and prosperous life is understanding “risk.” By this I mean knowing how to understand and analyze situations in life that affect health. Being able to accurately weigh benefits and risks when making health decisions is […]