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Understanding Trump voters may be key to rebuilding GOP after divisive election
The edge of steep cliffs pinched against a unruly river is an odd place to build a town. But that's where you'll find Grundy, Virginia, sharing its precarious foothold with a railroad track and two state highways. The picturesque mountains mask a hard life. Household income is less than half the state median, population is steadily declining, and fewer than 10 percent of residents have college degrees, compared to over 30 percent statewide. Coal, the only viable industry, is in free fall.
One year after launch, a new character-based rehab program is thriving
SALT LAKE CITY — It’s a frigid 20 degrees outside the historic Armstrong Mansion in downtown Salt Lake City. In the entry hall, three young women take off their overcoats, greeting visitors coming in behind them with friendly humor and confidence.
How college admissions are distorting the character of high school students
Ashley Gore is poised to graduate from high school with a 4.6 grade point average. She’s taken multiple advancement placement classes, ranks sixth in her class, and has some pretty nice SAT scores. But the senior at Poly High School in Riverside, California, has two B’s, which bug her. And she has only two service projects to put on her college applications, when most applications have room for 10. And she’s well aware that she weakened her GPA by doing newspaper for four years.
High principal turnover leaves schools adrift
One quarter of school principals leave their jobs every year. Half of new principals quit during their third year, and the highest principal turnover is in high-poverty schools.
Like father like child: why your future may be closely tied to your father's income and education
joshuaraineyphotography, Getty Images/iStockphoto 41 percent of kids whose father had top-level education stay there, and 36 percent of those who start in the bottom income bracket will remain there. A child’s odds of breaking out of poverty or gaining a college education are heavily shaped by the father’s income and education level, says Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution.
Kaine, Pence close debate with statements of personal faith and duel on social issues
David Goldman, AP Democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine, left, and Republican vice-presidential nominee Gov. Mike Pence answers a question during the vice-presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Va., on Oct. 4, 2016. For the past few months one thing has been noticeably absent from the U.S. presidential campaign: faith.
Testing backlash: Students and parents chafe at explosion of standardized tests
When Ethan Rediske was on his deathbed in January of 2014, the state of Florida wanted him to take a standardized exam. A severely disabled 11-year-old, Ethan was blind and mostly deaf. He had never talked or walked and was fed through a tube. In his final weeks, his special-needs teacher, who had become attached to him and he to her, came to his home to work with him, read to him, and lift his spirits.
How a historic property became a haven for drug addicts
SALT LAKE CITY — Ed Larrabee will never forget the freezing morning of Dec. 20, 2013, when he poked his head into an abandoned apartment he manages in Salt Lake City and saw a body on the ground. He thought the guy was asleep. The aging apartment complex, built in 1923, had been shuttered a few weeks earlier because it produced little revenue and was too expensive to properly maintain.
Is Utah still a model for solving chronic homelessness?
Editor's note: This is the second in a three-day series on homelessness, the issues that are keeping people living on the streets of Salt Lake City, and what can be done to help. SALT LAKE CITY — Bare, frostbitten toes on size 14½ feet stand out in a crowd. These ones are scabrous and peeling, whitish and bluish with one entirely black and clearly gangrenous.
See why Trump's speech to the Boy Scouts left one person's stomach 'in knots'
Carolyn Kaster, AP President Donald Trump speaks at the 2017 National Scout Jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va., Monday, July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump's speech to the Boy Scout Jamboree in West Virginia on Monday raised eyebrows and more than a few hackles. For 80 years, presidents have been invited to address the quadrennial gathering, and for 80 years presidents have steered clear of politics when doing so. Not any more.
The roles of family and community in shaping educational success
Every Saturday morning, a crowd of adults — some alone, others with toddlers in tow — squeeze into a classroom in the heart of New York City’s Harlem neighborhood to study better parenting at Baby College. In the nine-week free program, new parents learn about their child's brain and how to develop it. They learn how to read to young children, talk to a child who is too young to answer, provide balanced nutrition and offer loving discipline without anger.
The calculus behind Jason Chaffetz's sudden decision to walk away
SALT LAKE CITY —Jason Chaffetz stood behind the curtain of the high school auditorium, listening to the fire marshal try to calm the crowd. It was early February, just weeks after the inauguration of Donald Trump, and Chaffetz, a five-term congressman, had come to Cottonwood Heights to hold his first town hall since the election. Police had warned him not to bring his family. In secret, Facebook groups' agitation had been growing for weeks.
Which Utah colleges do the most to lift students out of poverty and into wealth?
American colleges vary widely in how effectively they move students from poverty into prosperity, a Mobility Report Card released by the Equal Opportunity Project at Stanford University finds. The report strikes a chord at a time when the American dream of intergenerational mobility is slipping away in the eyes many low- and middle-income American voters.
How Donald Trump's win could shake up the Supreme Court
Donald Trump's shocking victory Tuesday averted the Republican doomsday scenario of a Clinton-shaped Supreme Court, a specter that had driven many reluctant Republicans to hold their noses and fall in line by voting for a candidate they didn't like. Now, rather than a Hillary Clinton court pushing government and society to the left, Trump could well reshape the Supreme Court in dramatic fashion, expanding the fragile 5-4 conservative majority that had held for a generation until this year.
How your mind rejuvenates itself
A stone's throw from bluffs peppered with ancient Anasazi petroglyphs, the river flows smooth and fast along a reed-covered bank shaded by willows. Students with EEG caps wander from a tent through the reeds to a sandy river bank, where they will meditate while laptops record their brain activity. There is no sound but the river and the wind. The students are taking a cognition in the wilderness class taught by professor David Strayer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Utah.
Develop your child’s brain with simple advice from this app
Know a parent who needs help developing the brain of an infant or toddler? There’s a free app for that. It’s called Vroom, and it’s the brainchild of a team of scientists working with the Bezos Family Foundation. Vroom is more than just a piece of software. The app is part of a larger Vroom effort to offer parents simple ideas to make better use of their time with their child.
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