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David Waters

David Waters is Distinguished Journalist in Residence and assistant director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis.

Carpenter Art Garden volunteer Jane Pate reads “Last Stop on Market Street” to after-school student Javion Hicks, 7. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Carpenter Art Garden volunteer Jane Pate reads “Last Stop on Market Street” to after-school student Javion Hicks, 7. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Stuck in the Middle

Part 3: Binghampton cherishes its diversity, plans what’s next as development creeps in

Mutual aid, admiration builds neighborhood support systems

David WatersOctober 24, 2019

Steve Shular, City of Memphis special assistant for neighborhood concerns, surveyed vacant homes and blighted areas last week on Red Oak Street in Binghampton. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Steve Shular, City of Memphis special assistant for neighborhood concerns, surveyed vacant homes and blighted areas last week on Red Oak Street in Binghampton. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)

Stuck in the Middle

Part 2: A TIF grows in Binghampton after decades of Disinvestment

New TIF brings inspiration, investment to old neighborhood

David WatersOctober 23, 2019

General Contractor Octavius Nickson (left) and Noah Gray, executive director of the Binghampton Development Corp., chat as a bulldozer razes vacant homes on Tillman Cove. during ‘Demolition Day’ ceremony Sept. 9. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)

General Contractor Octavius Nickson (left) and Noah Gray, executive director of the Binghampton Development Corp., chat as a bulldozer razes vacant homes on Tillman Cove. during ‘Demolition Day’ ceremony Sept. 9. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Stuck in the Middle

Part 1: razing relic to past gives hope to blighted, forgotten neighborhood

'Demolition Day' a welcome sign of Binghampton's promise

David WatersOctober 23, 2019

Charlie Wall, 8, takes part in a hearing test at the University of Memphis Speech and Hearing Clinic, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Doctors at the U of M are conducting research to help kids who can hear, but whose brains can’t process what their ears collect. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian).

Charlie Wall, 8, takes part in a hearing test at the University of Memphis Speech and Hearing Clinic, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Doctors at the U of M are conducting research to help kids who can hear, but whose brains can’t process what their ears collect. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian).

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 3: How Memphis scientists help Children whose brains struggle to hear

Cutting-edge brain studies focus on Auditory Processing Disorder

David WatersSeptember 14, 2019

Dr. Eraina Schauss fills a syringe with electro gel which is then inserted into small holes in the qEEG cap. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Dr. Eraina Schauss fills a syringe with electro gel which is then inserted into small holes in the qEEG cap. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 2: Memphis scientists treat young trauma victims by ‘training’ Their brain waves

Researchers believe neurofeedback impacts learning, behavior, coping

David WatersSeptember 13, 2019

Kevin Broady tries to keep his twin one-year-old girls Serenity Broady and Kennedi Broady (right) entertained during a graduation ceremony for parents and kids in Le Bonheur’s Nurse-Family Partnership at the hospital’s community outreach center on Aug. 2, 2019. The program connects nurses with first-time pregnant mothers to guide them through early child development. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Kevin Broady tries to keep his twin one-year-old girls Serenity Broady and Kennedi Broady (right) entertained during a graduation ceremony for parents and kids in Le Bonheur’s Nurse-Family Partnership at the hospital’s community outreach center on Aug. 2, 2019. The program connects nurses with first-time pregnant mothers to guide them through early child development. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Brains vs. Trauma

Part 1: Memphis brainpower takes on ‘epidemic’ of chronic trauma, distress in youth

Families get help protecting kids from Adverse Childhood Experiences

David WatersSeptember 12, 2019

Rev. Randall Mullins and his wife, Sharon Pavelda, with the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, stand in front of the Ell Persons historic maker. The couple launched the project in 2016, with help from retired professors Tom Carlson and Margaret Vandiver, and retired oceanographer George Grider. Their goal is to locate and memorialize the site of every post-Civil War lynching in Shelby County. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Rev. Randall Mullins and his wife, Sharon Pavelda, with the Lynching Sites Project of Memphis, stand in front of the Ell Persons historic maker. The couple launched the project in 2016, with help from retired professors Tom Carlson and Margaret Vandiver, and retired oceanographer George Grider. Their goal is to locate and memorialize the site of every post-Civil War lynching in Shelby County. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Faith

lessons learned in ‘grueling but healing’ work on Memphis Lynching Sites

Memphis couple "showed us what a community looks like"

David WatersMay 29, 2019

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 3: Costly failures come with lessons for ‘teacher town’: Reading success begins at birth

Bush, Obama, Gates pushed reforms, but local innovators have better ideas

David WatersMay 18, 2019

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 2: Complex Plans, demands challenge reading teachers to be classroom maestros

Top-down reforms can't replace 'skilled and knowledgeable teacher'

David WatersMay 17, 2019

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Education

Part 1: Chronic poverty, trauma complicate efforts to close third-grade reading gap in Memphis

"When kids are in survival mode, they can't learn."

David WatersMay 16, 2019

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