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KPBS spoke with Richard Gijon, a longtime public schools educator and administrator, for insight, tips and ideas to help parents, caregivers and their children.

Literary editor Will Schwalbe's new book is a tale about connecting across divides — which is particularly heartening in our polarized culture.

First year college students are nearly all moved into their dorms. And that’s left many fathers of first-born sons in need of emotional support.

As the U.S. plans new mines for copper, lithium and other metals to use in green technologies, mining projects in the West could threaten scarce water supplies.

Dopamine is a part of our brain's survival mechanism. It is also part of why sugary foods and social media hook kids. The latest neuroscience can help parents help their kids manage behavior.

The number of congenital syphilis cases has ballooned to rates not seen in two decades. Public health workers say the increase coincides with a decline in funding for public health and a drop in the rate of women accessing prenatal care.

The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea. But it's already happening in every federal election. In 2020, more than 300,000 Americans cast ballots online.

Two registered sex offenders accused of engaging in sex acts with a 16-year-old girl at an El Cajon motel were ordered Thursday to stand trial on several felony sex crime counts.

Please join us on Wednesday, August 31 from 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. to celebrate the launch of The AjA Project’s first self-printed publication: "I’m Still Growing" / "Todavía Estoy Creciendo". This zine, created as part of the Compass Program, focuses on the intersections that wellness practices have with art and art making. Special thanks to teaching artists Alejandro Arreguin Villegas, Andrés Hernández, Zachary Fianza, and Stacey Uy, contributing artists May-Ling Martinez, Andrew Alcasid, and Alanna Airitam, as well as inscriptu printing for their support. Students, partners, and other community members are invited to attend and grab the newest volume of the Compass zine. A suggested $10 dollar donation is encouraged, all donations will go towards the printing of the zine so that we can get it to as many students as possible. The event includes an Artist Panel & Still Life Workshop guided by Andrew Alcasid and May-Ling Martinez. The AjA Project will provide all art materials. 20 people limit. Social distance and masks required. Accessibility: The AjA building is wheelchair accessible including multiple restrooms. Our building is on the MTS 13 bus line, closest stop, Fairmount at University. We have one reserved handicap parking space and limited lot parking/free street parking. Compass vol.2 is available in English, Spanish, and hybrid formats for both digital and physical copies. If you have any questions or concerns about attending our events, please contact communications@ajaproject.org, thank you. SOCIALS: Twitter & Instagram

Illinois hospitals are seeing a surge of out-of-state patients who need abortion care at a hospital due to medical complications. But hospital-based abortions are more costly and harder to arrange.