This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When it comes to providing play opportunities to children with disabilities, not all playgrounds are created equal. On most playgrounds in the United States, complex play structures with lots of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a child growing up on his family’s subsistence farm in Puebla, Mexico, Abel Luna loved helping to plant corn and other crops. But in 2001, when he turned 13,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The algorithm could lead to more timely emergency response and planning. Researchers incorporated the architecture of city drainage systems and readings from flood gauges into a comprehensive statistical framework. With…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many young people, the seemingly never-ending pandemic and isolation of virtual learning have exacerbated symptoms of depression that researchers documented among this age group long before COVID-19. In response…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lack of data on student-parents, specifically, inspired the study, said Sara Gorman, director of research and knowledge dissemination at the Jed Foundation, during a webinar Wednesday. Just over one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thanks to wider availability of vaccines and declining local rates of COVID-19, we’ve entered a new period in the pandemic. Parts of life are returning to what families were used…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is a well-known fact that even before COVID-19, girls in India were forced into child marriage, with one in three of the world’s child brides living in India. But there has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India is still home to one-third of the stunted children in the world, and has the highest number of wasted children globally. Stunting impairs cognitive potential and productivity, and wasting,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The federal government has made notable progress since March in getting unaccompanied children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border out of Border Patrol facilities and into Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Middle-school aged children should limit their recreational screen time to no more than one hour daily on school days and four hours a day on weekends, researchers say. A new…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whatever you’ve heard about student absenteeism during the pandemic, it’s likely worse than you thought. Not only are more students missing school, but they’re missing far more days than in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People I meet always want to know how I survived the systems. Until recently, it was a question I dreaded to be asked. I wanted to avoid being retraumatized, looked…