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Similarly, antidepressants have been used to help prevent migraines. "If antidepressants were discovered today and we didn't know they were antidepressants, we'd call them analgesics," says Dr. Seymour Diamond, director of the Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago. Intriguingly, the pain-fighting effect of antidepressants takes just three to 10 days to kick in, less than half the time needed to alleviate depression. This suggests that depression and migraine are triggered by different, though related, neural pathways...
When Melinda Gates listens, she leans in toward the speaker with rapt concentration, her eyes wide open, drinking in information. If she's visiting high school classrooms, as she was last month in Chicago, she doesn't hesitate to crouch down, in her heels and navy blue pantsuit, to get on eye level with a seated student and patiently ask questions. What she listens for are answers to some of the most vexing questions in public education: What does it take to turn a failing, urban high school into one that prepares students for higher education? How do you engage...
...Gates was in town to visit three high schools in the city's South Side, and check up on an investment. Since 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent $66 million to improve Chicago schools, including $21 million last year alone on the city's new High School Transformation program. Two of the three schools on the day's agenda had embarked on this transformation...
...focus for Chicago? How to get more public school students - 92% of whom are minority and 86% poor - ready and bound for college. Only half of the city's high school freshmen make it to graduation day four or five years later, though the rate has inched up from 47% in 2001 to 52.7% in 2005, according to city figures. Last year 48% of Chicago's graduating seniors enrolled in college in the fall, according to the National Student Clearing House. Raising graduation rates, reducing the dropout numbers and ensuring college readiness - particularly among poor and minority students...
...other with a long history as a dropout factory. But even at John Hope College Prep, the stronger of the two, only 27% of students passed state exams last year. Neither school was meeting federal requirements for progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. Arne Duncan, CEO of Chicago public schools, was on hand to show some the district's biggest benefactors his efforts to change that...