Tag: kids

  • Nation & World

    How schools teach children about their social station

    Sociologist Peter Francis Harvey observed students at private upper-middle-class and public working-class schools to explore implicit lessons.

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  • Nation & World

    Beyond the school day

    For more than two decades, Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association after-school programs have provided a safe and fun place for students to go in the crucial afternoon hours.

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  • Nation & World

    Researchers look at antidepressants and risk of suicide among kids

    Which is more likely to push a depressed child to suicide: not taking antidepressant drugs or taking antidepressant drugs? Medical experts have struggled with this question at least since 1990 when Harvard researchers reported that six people developed suicidal feelings soon after taking Prozac (fluoxetine). This was the first of the now widely prescribed serotonin…

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