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Ohio can and should beef up funding for early-childhood education The Plain Dealer: A report from the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development found that children entering Cleveland schools with quality preschool training scored significantly higher on kindergarten readiness than those wit...

ABC Uptown opens Friday in University Circle with a big party: Restaurant Row The Plain Dealer: ABC the Tavern will open in Uptown Friday, May 17. The space will echo its counterpart on West 25th Street, down to the bowling machine and vintage black-and-white photography. It will feature a 50-foot ...

Case baseball coach survives brain cancer, has team in NCAA Tournament The Plain Dealer: Head baseball coach Matt Englander’s battle with brain cancer—and its effect on his coaching—is recounted, as the team heads to the NCAA tournament Wednesday. “I don't view this as a death sentence," he said. "...

Science Café: Dopamine ideastream: George Jaskiw, professor of psychiatry, and Robert Ruff, professor of neurology and neuroscience, joined The Sound of Ideas to discuss dopamine and its relationship with addiction and certain diseases....

Cleveland captives likened to prisoners of war. How can they recover? The Christian Science Monitor: The three women freed in Cleveland last week are akin to prisoners of war, experts said. “These young women were in absolutely horrific conditions, so it’s hard to know whether the possibility of es...

Moms in opera: women on the edge NPR: In opera, mothers are disproportionately portrayed negatively. "So long as women are valued for their beauty, they will fear becoming their mothers. And men, who grow up knowing the domestic authority of their mothers, dread them,” said Susan McClary, professor...

Neuroprosthetics: Once more, with feeling Nature: Dramatic improvements to prosthetics have been made over the past 15 years, but the next step is getting them to have a sense of touch. “It's probably the next big thing that has to happen,” said Robert Kirsch, chair of the Department of Biomedical ...

Future of house where Ohio victims held debated Associated Press: A 10-foot privacy fence will surround the home of kidnapping suspect Ariel Castro, as officials try to keep the public out of the house. "The prosecutors are going to want to preserve it so they can take jurors into it to view, and t...

'Unfilmable' novels? No such thing, says Hollywood CNN: Louis Giannetti, professor emeritus of English and film, talks about the problem of trying to successfully covert books to film. “The language in Gatsby is almost like poetry,” he said. “How do you translate that into cinematic terms?”...

What to tell your children about abductions WKYC.com: Stephen Sroka, adjunct assistant professor of family medicine and community health, suggests ways to talk to your children about abduction and how they can keep themselves safe....