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When author and journalist Judith Warner set out to write a book about children and psychiatric drugs, she too accepted the conventional wisdom that American children are being medicated into numbness. But after extensive interviews with parents, therapists and academics, she made a 180-degree turn. In this impassioned book, the author argues that childhood mental illness is real, widespread and painful to families caught in its grip. Warner believes that statistics about Ritalin's being overprescribed are exaggerated. "Almost no parent takes the issue of psychiatric diagnosis lightly or rushes to 'drug' his or her child," she writes. "Responsible...
...recipients of the grants varied widely in scope and purpose, but the organizations were all selected for their “impact on our community and all of our children,” according to Bruno...
Some of the organizations will use the funds to supplement their current programs. The Fishing Academy, an organization that arranges group fishing outings for children, will use its $5,000 grant to make its services available to the neighborhood’s underprivileged youth, according to founder John D. Hoffman...
...absolutely see education as the civil rights issue of our generation,” he said to a packed audience that included University President Drew G. Faust, Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, newly elected Cambridge Mayor David P. Maher, and 300 others watching via telecast. “Children without those options are basically condemned to poverty...
Duncan, who grew up in the diverse Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park where his mother ran an after-school tutoring program for under-privileged children, said he had witnessed gross inequities between his education at the University of Chicago Lab School and the education of his neighbors in other schools...