Climate change is a health crisis. are doctors prepared?
Student-doctors across the United States are organizing to lead and push change in medical education and curricula toward teaching, training and learning about the impact and consequence of climate change on human and public health.
This story is part of a nine-part enterprise journalism series —Are We Ready? How Schools Are Preparing — and Not Preparing — Children for Climate Change— about climate change and education co-produced by The Huffington Post and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
Support family or go to school? a rohingya refugee teen’s juggle & struggle
Right after he stepped into teenage-hood, Salamat Khan, a Burmese Muslim refugee, missed nearly four years of schooling while his parents lived in Myanmar. Even after arriving in Chicago, his city of resettlement, in 2016 — Salamat missed crucial months of school so he could help support his family, including sending money to his parents in Myanmar. “I have to start a new life in America, but I also have to support my parents,” Salamat says. “There’s just so much on my shoulders.”
This story is part of a special series by The Teacher Project's journalism fellows on underreported stories on immigration and education. It was co-published by the Chicago Sun-Times and PBS Newshour. In 2019, Salamat’s story was nominated finalist n the ‘Best Education Reporting’ category for the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism. Later in the year, the story was once again chosen finalist for the annual South Asian Journalists Association Awards.
America knows how to provide good child care. it just don’t insist enough on it.
A survey of all 50 American states shows that most fall behind when enforcing standards of child care for infants and toddlers. Can regulation help?
This story is part of an enterprise journalism series called 'The Trouble With 2' produced by The Teacher Project fellowship in collaboration with The Hechinger Report and Slate Magazine.
in india, rapist’s wife faces a harsh judge: tradition
Punita Devi is the wife of one of the four men India executed on charges of gang-rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a moving bus in India’s capital city in 2012. Her story provides an entry into the lives of women in India’s conservative hinterland who face destitution and ostracism without their husbands. Punita’s story was documented in the aftermath of a brutal crime that continues to haunt a city of millions, a country of billions.
This story was the result of a months-long WSJ enterprise journalism project that investigated and explored the lives of the families of the “Delhi bus rape” rapists. It was published in The Wall Street Journal in 2013 and drew recognition and support from readers across the world.
digital divide leaves india’s women behind
Air conditioners, washing machines, cable television. Balbir, a retired cook, has embraced them all. But there is one innovation that isn’t welcome in his home: the smartphone.
South asia’s bone marrow donor problem
Nalini Ambady, a 54-year-old professor of psychology, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2004. She was treated and remained healthy for around eight years, until the leukemia returned in November. In 2012, Ms. Ambady’s students and colleagues from Tufts and Stanford universities took to social media platforms to find a donor for a stem cell transplant, which would potentially cure her.
The hunt for a donor for Nalini was extra complicated because she is South Asian.
In 2013, the hunt for a bone marrow donor for Nalini failed and she passed away.