Children of parents who attended a high-quality preschool program in the 1960s were better educated, healthier, better employed and more likely to stay stably married, especially if they were boys born to preschool-educated fathers.
Scientists caution that weakening the Migratory Bird Treaty Act imperils many types of birds that are endangered or declining in numbers, and it also eliminates an important source of wetlands restoration funding: penalties paid by violators.
More than three years after the study began, federal agencies have not issued any safety findings from their highly anticipated crumb rubber study.
The first step to a survival strategy: acknowledging that there’s a problem.
In 2009 the IRS commissioner aimed to stanch the country’s losses with what he proclaimed would be “a game-changing strategy.” But lawyers for the ultrawealthy had their own strategies.
Assuming the progress continues apace, Dugsi Academy’s experience might hold some lessons for educators and policymakers who study school improvement strategies.
In a religiously plural democracy, war memorials with religious symbols can have different meanings for different citizens.
The Office of Refugee Resettlement has never made the shelters’ existence public or even disclosed them to the minors’ own attorneys in a landmark class-action case.
It’s not easy for rural students to visit colleges and universities to learn more about them or participate in sit-down interviews with admissions officers.
Unlike pills in a medicine cabinet, most medical devices don’t go through human testing before being offered to patients.
Innocent bystanders and others are killed when police chase drivers at high speeds, often for minor infractions and in risky circumstances.
Georgia’s Fulton County is among a number of suburban districts turning to national nonprofit AVID to shrink achievement gaps and get kids of color ready for college.
One study finding implied to us that husbands with the TT genotype had greater difficulty interpreting their respective wife’s behavior as supportive.
The EPA extended its approval of the weed killer for two more years, despite scientists’ warnings.
Companies need more people with degrees but struggle to find them.
Drug companies routinely make hidden pacts with middlemen that effectively block patients from getting cheaper generic medicines.
The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. The same mechanisms could be melting other giant ice shelves, too.
ProPublica’s Documenting Hate database shows that the terrorizing of people where they live is alive and well decades after the civil rights movement.
As the 116th Congress convenes, power has shifted from Republican control of both the Senate and House to a Republican Senate and a Democratic House. How can American political history help us anticipate what might be in the offing?
More than one-third — or 37.3 percent — of 12th-graders reported vaping at least once in the past 12 months, according to a survey by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
