The tests include having the children name pictures and describe them, follow certain directions, and answer questions about themselves.

The screenings are just short evaluations, so if problem results come back we give the students a full test and work with the parents and teachers to then provide any assistance for the child.

Studies have shown that children who eat breakfast, perform better in school, perform better on tests and are less likely to miss school. Also children who have breakfast have a lower incidence of obesity.

For generations, many people have known that Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, ... The much publicized results of DNA tests several years ago simply corroborate what had been common knowledge. Over the years, certain highly regarded scholars defended Jefferson's 'purity,' categorically denying claims that there had been a sexual relationship between master and slave. Since those 'revelations,' some of them have retreated from their former position of 'It didn't happen' only to insist that the affair between Hemings and Jefferson was an exception. But in fact such affairs, far from being exceptional, were fairly commonplace. That's part of what I wanted to convey by 'the American way' of the title.

I had heard about them [acid tests] and was deeply offended along with everybody else in my sort of Eastern Orthodox Church of LSD, ... We thought it was a very serious sacrament and should not be handed out in bathtubs for people to drink as much as they want.

This area has one of the highest levels of radon in the nation. The tests we've done on homes in this area show three of five have elevated levels.