How the Trump administration is pressuring universities to fall in line.
The Trump administration has said universities that sign a compact agreeing to certain policy priorities will get preferential treatment when it comes to getting federal funding. Though no schools have signed the agreement yet, some say they are in discussions with the administration about it. We discuss the compact and other tactics by an administration that has made reshaping higher education a priority. Listen to the NPR Politics Podcast.
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Teens who use weed before age 15 have more trouble later, a study finds. They are more likely to develop mental and physical health problems in young adulthood compared to their peers who did not use the drug in adolescence. "The risk is concentrated among those who start early and use frequently," says psychologist and the study's main author Massimiliano Orri at McGill University. Read the story.
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'The helpers need help'. Food banks brace for impact as SNAP cliff looms. Food banks alone cannot make up for what would be lost for residents if SNAP were to disappear. "The average household that we see receives about $350 per month, which roughly translates to about $44 million worth of SNAP benefits that will be gone from families," Central Texas Food Bank CEO Sari Vatske told NPR. "There is no way that we alone can make up for a $44 million food budget shortfall.” Read the story.
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Volunteers from the LiTEArary Society read and donate copies of Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes to pre-schoolers in Grafton, West Virginia.Chris Schulz/West Virginia Public Broadcasting |
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Volunteers foster literacy by reading to children and giving them books. Devan Chopra is reading to a preschool classroom in Grafton, West Virginia. She's holding up the book Pete the Cat.
"I'm here because I really want to spread the love of reading," she said.
The high school junior came to this Head Start program as a volunteer with the LiTEArary Society, an international group started in West Virginia that gets new picture books to preschool children to develop a love of reading.
She's been volunteering with the LiTEArary Society for four years, since she was in the 7th grade. The group collects books and takes them to classrooms like this one for students to take home. It's an area where books are not always readily available to children.
"We've been bringing books through Appalachia, and this was the next stop," she said. Read/listen to the full story from our series “Here to Help.”
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