By Philip Tavill, president and CEO of Children First
on April 27, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
Editor’s Note: Philip Tavill is the President/CEO of Children First, a four-time designated National Head Start Association Program of Excellence (2006–2020). Children First, the Head Start grantee for Sarasota County, believes it is vitally important…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on February 25, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
In the 19th century, black intellectuals in the northeast gathered regularly in literacy groups to research, debate, and write about everything from mathematical theories, history and language, to women’s fashion in China. “It’s a part of black history that’s been…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on February 11, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
Adjacent neighborhoods can have wide disparities in lifelong outcomes. Along much of Florida’s Gulf Coast, inequities are more common between neighborhoods in the same city than they are across the country. And they can affect everything from life expectancy to…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on February 10, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
At no cost to the families, buses “Rosie” and “Sunny” park in their student’s driveways in rural Clay County, Kentucky, to introduce 3- and 4-year-olds to books, letters, and numbers. Research on the benefits of pre-K shows definitively that children…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 31, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism, Community, Health.
The increased maternal mortality rate among black women holds true across income and coverage status. The country with the most expensive health care costs in the developed world is also the most dangerous one for women to give birth. If…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 31, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism, Community, Health.
A girlfriend told me she wanted to foster but would wait until her own child grew up and moved out, just to be safe. This doesn’t make her a bad person — it’s a common take on how children in…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 17, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
Tips on teaching gratitude to children, all year long. For some families, volunteering during the holidays is a tradition. But not all traditions are helpful, despite good intentions. At One Hopeful Place, a homeless shelter in Fort Walton Beach, volunteer…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 17, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
Florida has the second-highest number of uninsured children under the age of 6 in the U.S. When a 2018 report revealed that 42% of the state’s pre-kindergarten students were unprepared for kindergarten, Gov. Ron DeSantis called…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 13, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
A recent study shows that just 10% of parents discuss race often with their children. In the Netherlands, children are dropped into the woods in the dead of night until they find their way back to safety, and a lone…
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By Kim Doleatto, Herald-Tribune Media Group
on January 6, 2020
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Aspirations Journalism.
A recent study shows that just 10% of parents discuss race often with their children. For the first time, less than half the nation’s children younger than 15 years old are non-Hispanic white, but adults are still reluctant to talk…
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