John McKenna – Associate Professor of Special Education, UMass Lowell Even before the pandemic hit, 98% of U.S. school districts said they didn’t have enough special education teachers to serve all the…
Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March…
Lana Ruvolo Grasser – Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Fellow, Wayne State University A few years ago, framed by the skyline of Detroit, a group of about 15 children resettled…
By Claire Sibonney Miché Aaron has always been a high achiever. The 29-year-old is in her third year of a planetary sciences doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University, where she…
By Madeline Thigpen | Report for America Clark Atlanta University (CAU) is the recipient of a four-year $1.8 million grant from the Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program…
By Cory Turner, NPR and Christine Herman, WILL / Illinois Public Media Kai Humphrey, 9, has been learning from home for more than a year. He badly misses his Washington, D.C., elementary school,…
Written by: Aneri Pattani | Photo Courtesy: Shelby Miller Wilma Mayfield used to visit a senior center in Durham, North Carolina, four days a week and attend Lincoln Memorial Baptist…