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Coaching Your Kid’s Team This Spring? Here’s What You Should Know.

Each year, more than 6.5 million youth sports coaches take to the field — most of them volunteers. If you're one of them, here's what you should know.

everydayHEALTH

What to Do if You Suspect You or Your Child Has a Concussion

Athletes aren’t the only ones who get concussions. Taking a hit to the head can happen off the playing field, too, as a result of car crashes, falls, or other scenarios. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), falls were the leading cause of all TBI-related emergency room (ER) visits in 2013 for kids under 14 and for adults 25 or older.

Regardless of how a brain injury happens, it’s important to know what symptoms to look for and how to proceed. Downplaying...

everydayHEALTH

Is Tackle Football for Children Harming Their Brains?

In families and communities across America, it starts early, with kids as young as 5 signing up to play tackle football. That age-old tradition could change, though.

The Washington Post

In an era of school shootings, how can we expect kids to focus on learning?

Somehow, they’re expected to compartmentalize the latest tragedy: to keep studying for tests and preparing for the college admission gantlet, while not losing their focus.

The Washington Post

Why we still allow bullying to flourish in kids sports

In the cellphone video, a teenage boy stands at the front of the classroom as his football teammates laugh. The coach walks to the door and closes it. “We don’t want no witnesses,” he says, to more laughter ...

Slate

More and More Americans Are Learning Basic First Aid for Gunshot Wounds

In the wake of several mass shootings, learning how to stanch bleeding is becoming increasing popular.

sports.good.is

New Research Shows Concussion Laws Are Working

Not that long ago, youth athletes who suffered a head injury were often told to “shake it off” and get back in the game. Today, with growing concern about brain injury, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have passed concussion laws which have markedly reduced the number of repeat concussions . . .

Slate

Why Does High School Still Start So Early?

The last students around the country are making their way back to school this week. But regardless of the virtues of starting a new school year in August or in September, one thing is still almost uniformly true: Most of the nation’s public middle schools and high schools still...

Slate

Getting guns out of suicidal people's hands is a straightforward way ...

Getting guns out of suicidal people's hands is a st...

Los Angeles Times

Hawking poinsettias to pay for high school extracurriculars - LA Times

Hawking poinsettias to pay for high school extracur...

Los Angeles Times

Why school should start later in the day - LA Times

Why school should start later in the day - LA Times...

The Washington Post

Would-be teen shooter was thwarted, but the story doesn't end there ...

Would-be teen shooter was thwarted, but the story d...

Slate

Did the Country’s Best High School Claim Its Crown Thanks to Its Late Start Time?

On Tuesday, U.S. News and World Report released its annual public high-school rankings, with the School for the Talented and Gifted in Dallas earning t ......

Slate

If You Call Time Off Before College a “Gap Year,” You’re Probably Predisposed to Succeed

The country’s most visible college-bound senior, Malia Obama, made headlines this weekend when she announced that not only is she going Harvard, but sh ......

Slate

A Half-Century Later, We Still Don’t Know How to Send Money to the Poorest Schools

On Wednesday, U.S. News & World Report released a comprehensive analysis showing that Title I, the federal program created as part of civil rights–era ......