News
Is ICE causing a drop in student enrollment? School leaders say yes.
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (516+ words) School leaders from local cities with large immigrant populations say fears of stepped-up federal immigration enforcement is driving a drop in student enrollment numbers. And, they say, that enrollment decline is contributing to a budget crunch that will make it…...
Fewer au pairs are coming to the US. Some blame immigration policy.
23+ hour, 53+ min ago (798+ words) New data shared by the State Department shows the number of au pairs in the United States fell by 13% in 2025. Families and agencies are blaming immigration policies under President Donald Trump for fewer young people from other countries being interested…...
Rogers Brubaker: Politics and Governance in the Digital Era: Between Populism and Technocracy
6+ day, 11+ hour ago (237+ words) The Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College welcomes Rogers Brubaker, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at UCLA, and author to discuss how digital hyper-connectivity has reshaped political life by transforming ways of knowing, feeling, and governing. He explores the tension between…...
Kids carry the internet in their pockets. Are schools teaching them how to use it?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (896+ words) It's harder than ever to tell what's real from what's not online. A new national report from the Watertown-based nonprofit Media Literacy Now tracks how states are responding " or failing to respond " through media and digital literacy education policy, and…...
How IVF has led to a record number of single moms in their 40s
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1741+ words) Laura Terry dreamed of having kids " a family she could call her own. But there was one challenge: She wasn't interested in dating, marriage, or partnering up. So, she came up with an idea for an unusual present to give…...
GBH Daily: Guaranteed income for a homeless teen
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (918+ words) Sunny and freezing, with highs in the low 30s. Sunset is at 4:15 p.m. and our days are officially getting longer. In the next two weeks we'll be checking in with our reporters and looking back on the stories they covered in 2025. Are…...
Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (704+ words) MELBOURNE, Australia " Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult. Parents reported distraught children…...
For the first time this century, child deaths under age 5 will likely rise. Why?
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (671+ words) One of the crowning achievements in global health is at risk of coming undone. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of children who die before they hit their 5th birthday dropped by half " from nearly 10 million deaths a year to under 5 million deaths…...
Leadership to blame for 18M deficit in Brockton Public Schools, new report says
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (449+ words) The state Office of the Inspector General on Wednesday notified Brockton city officials that leadership "failures" led to an $18 million deficit in the city's public schools during the 2023 fiscal year. The state office sent city officials a 10-page letter detailing…...
CDC's vaccine advisers meet to question long-used vaccines
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (1561+ words) Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than a dozen other infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, whooping cough…...