Johnson & Pratt: Challenges from poverty and mental health to lack of internet and gifted programs are disrupting kids’ educations & economic futures.
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Progress toward the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States has been stalled by significant racial and ethnic disparities.
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Obstetric services have shrunk elsewhere in Wyoming’s Fremont County. Tribal patients have greater options.
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Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process. Traditionally, researchers had…
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The mental healthcare system in the United States needs a dramatic intervention. At best, our system is fragmented, siloed, and plagued by misaligned incentives that only deepen existing problems; at…
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Students who started middle school early in the pandemic lost ground in math, like students at other grade levels. But unlike other groups, they don’t appear to be recovering. At two Virginia schools, close relationships with students, plus longer math periods and tutoring, have helped eighth and…
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Global health professionals need to build a culture fostering trust and learning in which we can learn as much from what doesn’t work as from what does.
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With rural America hemorrhaging health care providers, the federal government is investing dollars and attention to family medicine physicians.
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After the release of NAEP revealed the worst-ever decline in math scores, the Khan Academy founder is sounding the alarm…
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Declaring that children’s “lives and education have been turned upside-down,” President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to highlight the pandemic’s blow to student mental health…
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Kindergarten enrollment remained down 5.2 percent in 2022-2023 school compared with 2019-2020, as fewer families consider it an assumed first step in a child’s formal education.
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A new study shows flooding’s impact on human health is much greater than is typically recognized, going beyond health issues such as the risk of accidental injury, and exposure to…