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A new study finds children considered troublemakers in kindergarten will do just as well academically as their peers in later school years. There's also new research on children with A.D.H.D. suggesting a possible brain development delay but no long term deficit. New insights on evaluating and educating young children with behavior problems.
Sharon Landesman Ramey, Director, Center for Health and Education, Georgetown University
Dr. Philip Shaw, Psychiatry Fellow, National Institutes of Mental Health. E-mail: shawp@mail.nih.gov
Greg Duncan, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
Many Americans assume more medical treatment means better health care. But a medical journalist says too much medicine can make us sicker and poorer. She explains how unnecessary tests and procedures are not only expensive and wasteful but can actually harm our health.
Shannon Brownlee, senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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