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Young people ages 7 to 18 are busy checking off their back-to-school or college lists. Visiting their pediatrician or family doctor to get up to date on immunizations should be part of that list. Immunizations will prepare their immune systems to recognize and resist viruses that spread quickly once...
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Los niños y jóvenes de 7 a 18 años están ocupados completando sus listas de pendientes para preparar su regreso a la escuela o a la universidad. Visitar a su pediatra o médico de cabecera para ponerse al día con las vacunas debería ser parte de esas listas. Las...
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Venkates Swaminathan CalMatters La primera vez que subí a un avión fue en un vuelo desde Delhi, India, hasta el Aeropuerto Internacional John F. Kennedy de Nueva York. Llegué a Estados Unidos como estudiante, primero a la Universidad de Illinois y, tras obtener mi maestría, a California, donde he...
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Venkates Swaminathan CalMatters The first time I got on a plane was for a flight from Delhi, India to JFK Airport in New York. I came to the United States as a student, first to the University of Illinois, and after earning my master’s degree, to California, where I’ve...
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Un proyecto de ley presentado en el Senado de los Estados Unidos garantizaría a todos los maestros de escuelas públicas en el país un salario mínimo de al menos $60,000 dólares al año. La Ley de Pago a Maestros, patrocinada por el senador independiente Bernie Sanders, de Vermont, también triplicaría...
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A bill filed in the U.S. Senate would guarantee all public schoolteachers across the U.S. a minimum salary of at least $60,000 dollars a year. The Pay Teachers Act, sponsored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would also triple funding allocated to schools for children from low-income families to more than...
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Many of us grew up dreaming of a high school diploma, but life sometimes throws us off course. Maybe you had to work to help out at home, take care of your family, or faced other hardships like language barriers. And that high school diploma was left in the...
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Muchos de nosotros crecimos con el sueño de un título escolar, pero la vida a veces nos pone en caminos diferentes. Tal vez hubo que trabajar para ayudar en casa, cuidar a la familia o enfrentar barreras como el idioma. Y ese diploma de preparatoria o “high school” quedó...
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For many years, crime has been a constant companion for those of us who live or work in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. Although several areas of the city are now havens of the gentrification that has spread over the past 20 years, we know which places not to...