A catastrophic flood emptied New Orleans of much of its black youth. Powerful social forces may be doing a similar thing to places like Harlem and Chicago's South Side. Over the past decade, the inner-city neighborhoods that have served for generations as citadels of African-American life and cultu... Read more...
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04/08/2011,
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Kampala - THE Budaka district education officer, Wilson Lyadda, has said 80% of parents in the district do not know what happens to their children while at school. He said many parents dump their children in school without bothering to know their academic performance. "Parents only fight hard ... Read more...
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03/08/2011,
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Chicago kids under the age of 12 would have to be in the house by 8:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 p.m. on weekends, under a curfew crackdown proposed by three South Side aldermen Wednesday to rein in "unsupervised" children. Public Safety Committee Chairman Michelle Harris (8th) joined Aldermen Toni ... Read more...
You don't need to be a doctor or scientist to see that Americans are getting fatter and fatter. We are the United States of obesity. Twelve states now have obesity rates above 30 percent, a just-released report from Trust for America's Health shows. Even the state with the highest percentage of peo... Read more...
Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp., which represents the second largest media conglomerate in the world behind the Walt Disney Company, is taking a severe beating as Murdoch himself is having to address various criminal allegations, including that hisNews of the Worldtabloid illegally hacked... Read more...
A U.S. medical advisory group recommended providing women free birth control and other preventive health services under the nation's healthcare overhaul. The Institute of Medicine report, commissioned by the Obama administration, recommended that all U.S.-approved birth control methods -- including... Read more...
Being the principal of a "community school" means Kimberly A. Johnson doesn't have to go it alone in addressing some of the social or health problems that distract children from doing well in school. Within just a couple of days last month, a nearby Wal-Mart store agreed to a request from one o... Read more...
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22/07/2011,
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by Kersty McCourt Pretrial Detention and Torture: Why Pretrial Detainees Are Most at Risk is part of a broader effort to demonstrate how this single issue of excessive detention lies at the heart of a web of misfortune and abuse that disproportionally affects the poor and the excluded, and whi... Read more...
by Luke Douglas EDUCATORS are being urged to incorporate the experiences of boys outside of school into to the classroom, and to give boys more space to express themselves without reprimand as ways to improve their performance in the education system. Participants at a one-day workshop tackl... Read more...