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California leads the country in deaths from heart disease, losing over 65,000 individuals from the condition in 2021, beating out cancer and a slew of other major health issues as the leading cause of death. High blood pressure (also known as hypertension), which can lead to heart disease, is...
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Carolyn Jones CalMatters For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and English language arts scores inched downward for most grade levels last year, notching some of the...
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Shelly Palmer “I don’t want to be Jewish anymore.” My grandmother looked sympathetically at her seven-year-old grandson and asked why. “Everyone hates us, the Nazis killed us, and I don’t want to be killed just because I’m Jewish.” During the course of that afternoon, my grandmother told me the...
California leads the country in deaths from heart disease, losing over 65,000 individuals from the condition in 2021, beating out cancer and a slew of other major health issues as the leading cause of death. High blood pressure (also known as hypertension), which can lead to heart disease, is...
Carolyn Jones CalMatters For most K-12 student groups in California, test scores have been maddeningly flat since the pandemic. But for Black students, stagnant scores have been particularly frustrating: Black students’ math and English language arts scores inched downward for most grade levels last year, notching some of the...
Shelly Palmer “I don’t want to be Jewish anymore.” My grandmother looked sympathetically at her seven-year-old grandson and asked why. “Everyone hates us, the Nazis killed us, and I don’t want to be killed just because I’m Jewish.” During the course of that afternoon, my grandmother told me the...