Deogratias Niyizonkiza : “My experience has taught me that it is dangerous to separate health, education, and human rights as they truly affect families and youth in every corner of the world”
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A recent report by the United Nations showed that more people worldwide have access to a mobile phone than to water
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While we cannot doubt for a minute that the USA has serious healthcare access issues, we can have some confidence in the outcomes once access is achieved. The situation facing most of the world’s population is different. Way, way too many people have no access to any healthcare and much less faith in its positive outcomes. The reasons are poverty, lack of education, political corruption, and a woeful infrastructure.
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Over ten years ago, I was involved in founding a school in Massachusetts. The school model—a seamless early childhood/elementary school – had all the research […]
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I was delighted when President Obama said in his 2013 State of the Union address that one of his top priorities is Universal Pre-K. The […]
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A February 2013 report brief by Active Living Research [i] examines current literature on how short physical activity breaks in the classroom may affect overall […]
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“Don’t give up, keep trying, you can do it!” These messages echo through Claudia Jaramillo’s second grade class at Hennigan Elementary in Jamaica Plain as […]
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Is it a government’s (city, state, or federal) right, ethically or legally, to enforce rules on the size of soft drinks? If one defines ethics as values put into action, then what are the values of a government and what should they be?
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There are times in human history when the sufferings we inflict upon each other force ourselves to come together enough, for a brief moment, to set a higher standard for how to live among others
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