Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes
When it comes to adolescent health, adults—including parents, clinicians, and teachers—often focus on how to prevent teens from taking risks. But a recent report from the Board on Children, Youth, and Families at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found that healthy risk taking is a normal and necessary part of growing up […]
Church Pews and Gymnasiums Become Learning Spots as Cleveland Scrambles to Help Students With Online Lessons
The first room of the new “learning center” opening this week at Jones Road Congregational Church looks straightforward enough. Long tables fill a small church meeting room, spaced apart for students to do online school work while schools are closed because of COVID-19. The first nine students to sign up will work here.
New York Times: Open-Air Classrooms Were the Solution for School During Earlier Plagues
In the early years of the 20th century, tuberculosis ravaged American cities, taking a particular and often fatal toll on the poor and the young. In 1907, two Rhode Island doctors, Mary Packard and Ellen Stone, had an idea for mitigating transmission among children. Following education trends in Germany, they proposed the creation of an […]