This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Those living in rural versus metropolitan counties, and those living farther from the hospital where they received their cancer diagnosis, are more likely to find out at a later cancer…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fire and health officials began issuing warnings about wildfire smoke several weeks earlier than normal this year. With almost the entire U.S. West in drought, signs already pointed to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dallas principal Ruby Ramirez knew trouble was brewing when the school counselor came to her office looking grim. A once gregarious, curious student was disappearing before their eyes, the counselor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to exacerbate the nation’s geographic divergence in community well-being and economic prosperity that has been widening since the Great Recession. Over one-quarter of U.S. counties…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the cost of health care is one of the overwhelming problems in the American health care system, short-term health plans do nothing to alter the underlying causes. Indeed, these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I want to share some of the ways I believe the arts can best be utilized to ensure that this is indeed a transformational time in American history: Anti-racism, arts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The unanticipated transitions to virtual schooling due to COVID-19 exposed the lack of digital resources among Black families in the United States, including access to Wi-Fi and technological savviness, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Stress is demanding. But our brains can adapt remarkably well. In fact, according to experts in health psychology like Laurel Mellin, if we train our brains “for the high-stress times in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With many students needing academic intervention after the pandemic, school district officials in Columbus and Cleveland, are turning to “mastery” learning as a strategy to catch them up. The mastery,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. And the problem is only growing: The number of students seeking counseling has doubled in the last five years on some campuses, given increased rates of anxiety and depression, as well as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. have been proved to be safe and effective, recent reports of rare adverse events, or side effects, have raised concerns. On…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is long past time to stop calling events like Hurricanes Sandy, Katrina, and now Harvey and Irma, natural disasters. There is no such thing. These may be natural events.…