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Arkansas’s child welfare system discriminates against relatives of neglectful or abusive parents

Posted on October 29, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at the Arkansas Times:

Last February, as Kimberlee Herring, a 43-year-old grandmother in Cabot, was browsing online, something caught her eye: a mug shot of Jacqueline Ferguson, a former special needs teacher, foster parent and the woman who’d adopted Kimberlee’s three grandchildren — two boys and a girl, aged [...]

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Lost in the foster care backlog

Posted on September 24, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

Among the many challenges facing Arkansas’s foster care system, one basic problem looms large: There are almost two children for every foster bed in the state. It’s a shortfall that Gov. Asa Hutchinson acknowledged as a “crisis” in a press conference this summer. One might think [...]

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For Silicon Valley Hopefuls, in College Irrelevant?

Posted on September 14, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at Medium:

On a sunny day in July, some 35 budding computer science students sat in a large room with beige walls and blocks of tables arranged into nine group work stations. The room was a temporarily commandeered art gallery in New York City, directly underneath the city’s High Line park, in a now-gentrified neighborhood that was once the [...]

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Why Does Open Adoption Rarely Work?

Posted on July 14, 2015 · Add Comment

New book review at The New Republic:

It’s hard to find an honest account of an open adoption that works: one where adoptive parents and birthparents have agreed that they will stay in touch and share the milestones of their child’s life, and then do so. Most of the birthmothers who [...]

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Arkansas’s overloaded foster care system

Posted on July 8, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at Arkansas Times:

“In 2007, a 10-year-old girl from Fort Smith named Ivy Brake became the responsibility of the state. Her mother, Ivy recalled, was loving, sweet and unstable. She struggled with substance abuse for most of Ivy’s childhood. She periodically got clean — once for a year — [...]

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Meet the Medical Students for Choice

Posted on July 6, 2015 · Add Comment

New story up at Conscience:

In an era of TRAP laws, misleading hidden camera campaigns and ongoing vigilante violence against abortion clinics and staff, it’s easy to wonder why any young doctor would want to become an abortion provider. The battles only seem to grow—from ever more restrictive state laws to [...]

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What Do Teachers Do After Saying Goodbye to the Classroom?

Posted on June 4, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at Medium:

The career path for teachers has traditionally been narrowly circumscribed. They could remain in the classroom for life, as many do. For those who want a break from the classroom routine, there have historically been few options: become a principal or superintendent, or morph [...]

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“Do you understand that your baby goes away and never comes back?”

Posted on April 22, 2015 · Add Comment

New story up at The New Republic:

On July 29, 2014, Maryann and Dexter Koshiba, 32 and 37 years old, sat, utterly exhausted, in a recovery room at Washington Regional Medical Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas. That morning, Maryann had given birth to a baby girl, and both had been up all [...]

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How Pinterest Is Revolutionizing Your Child’s Classroom

Posted on March 31, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at Medium:

The bookshelves in my parents’ home are laden with colorful volumes of classroom teaching tips my mother accumulated over her decades teaching high school English between the 1970s and 1990s. Some were handed down as graduation gifts from teaching college professors; others were picked up at [...]

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The Worst Adoption Therapy in the World

Posted on March 14, 2015 · Add Comment

New story at the Daily Beast:

An awful story has been unfolding in Arkansas. On March 5, Benjamin Hardy of the Arkansas Times published an explosive investigation about how State Representative Justin Harris “rehomed” his young adoptive children, leaving them in the care of a former employee, who was [...]

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