Mar 21 6 Tips for Parents of Students With Learning Differences Daniel Paris on the campus of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Here, he points to the address where he sent his application materials. After dropping out of high school, Daniel Paris was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and… Continue reading
Mar 21 From High School Dropout to Harvard University Graduate Student By Sarah Clune EmbedVideo(2941, 514, 320); Editor's Note: This profile is part of a PBS NewsHour series on the role of learning disabilities in America's dropout crisis. Stay tuned for more in the coming days, both on-air and online. Daniel… Continue reading
Mar 19 Poetry from a ‘Neurologically Impaired’ Life Editor's Note: This profile is part of a PBS NewsHour series on the role of learning disabilities in America's dropout crisis. Stay tuned for more in the coming days, both on-air and online. I wanted to tell you,… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch From High School Dropout to Harvard University Grad Student This is the story of Daniel Paris, a Harvard grad student with learning disabilities. Continue watching
Mar 16 Five Misconceptions About Learning Disabilities Getty illustration by Zigy Kaluzny In the classroom, it starts simply -- sometimes with a struggle to sound out simple words; sometimes with trouble telling time, memorizing the times tables or learning left from right. It often ends… Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch What’s Causing Water Shortages in Ghana, Nigeria? Two journalists investigate the challenges of bringing the most basic necessity to the people of Ghana and Nigeria: clean, safe water. As part of a collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, special correspondent Steve Sapienza followed them as… Continue watching
Mar 13 Five Health Reform Changes to Watch in 2012 By Michelle Andrews Starting in August, the Obama administration's new rules on contraceptive coverage take effect. Photo Illustration by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. Two years after its passage, the sweeping health care overhaul remains deeply controversial, with both political parties trying to use it… Continue reading
Mar 12 New Health Reform Rules Issued as Supreme Court Review Nears By Jason Kane Heath and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, middle, makes her way to a news conference in July to announce a preliminary framework on health insurance exchanges. She issued the final regulations Monday. Photo by Tom Willaims/Roll Call. Just two weeks… Continue reading
Mar 09 Fukushima Survivor: I Want ‘To Breathe Freely Again’ EmbedVideo(2889, 482, 304); Nuclear technician Carl Pillitteri was one of 38 Americans at the Fukushima nuclear power plant when an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's eastern coast and triggered a radiation leak at the reactor. It's taken Pillitteri… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch Fukushima Survivor: ‘I’ve Hardly Smiled This Whole Year’ Fukushima Survivor: I Want 'To Breathe Freely Again'… Continue watching