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A World Bank report on how schooling is not the same as learning: students are leaving school without a real working knowledge of what their classes were supposed to teach.

Striking data from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll on the reasons that millions of Americans skip needed mental health care.

Adults are spending too much time worrying about the “hook-up culture” and too little time on guidance on healthy relationships from both parents and health or sex education classes.

The United States has experienced an alarming rise in the number of homeless K-12 students. “Invisibility” is a barrier to connecting homeless students to proper resources.

Adolescent racial or ethnic minorities in Massachusetts experience disproportionately high levels of sadness and suicide attempts. There is also a large disparity between white youth and minority youth receiving depression treatment.

Later school start times improve academic performance and mental and physical health for adolescents, as well as safety for the general public.

Data from provider networks in ACA marketplaces showed mental health care physicians were out-of-network almost 60% of the time, while primary care physicians were only out of network around 40% of the time.

Some state legislatures are working to loosen regulations around carrying firearms in public. The majority of Americans actually support limiting where and how guns should be carried.

A recent study by Jacob Bor of the Boston University School of Public Health showed that voters in areas with stagnated or declining life expectancy were more likely to vote for Trump.

Research shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans out of the workforce are women with a high school education or less, and about half of these women cite caregiving as the reason.