so when school lets out, the superintendent has ordered everyone to forget about schoolwork. and think about families. >> to spend time and rejuvenate, i guess you say, refresh. >> recharge. >> we all need it. >> shannon macintosh has three kids, she welcomes the focus on the holidays. with your family, relaxing, enjoying one another, you only live once. >> and son jake, no homework is a good thing. >> it will be fun. i will have a great time maybe playing a sport,. >> the superintendent's e-mail was explicit, we, the teachers, students and administrators need a break. >> i would rather not do anything so i think it is going to be great, you done have to worry about spending the last day doing a ton of homework because you are obviously not going to do it in the beginning the break. >> so this holiday season when people greet each other, it will be are you relaxing? i'm bill shields wbz news. >> sounds pretty good. >>> late this afternoon i did check with the superintendent he says it applies to all ofs, we don't have to do anything. >> you done have to get through that radia

students came back from that first trip more dedicated to their schoolwork, their families, and their futures. jason: it was phenomenal, the results was phenomenal. and we said we've got to keep it going. garvin: and that is just what jason has been doing, not just planning the next trip, but expanding the ways he can work with the kids back at home, improving their plans for the future while solidifying his. jason: this is absolutely the beginning, just the beginning. garvin: our next story is also about a journey, but a very different one. it's the story of how one man took millions of steps so another could take his first in years. garvin: you'd think after 2,600 miles of hiking, after weeks of solitude and sometimes days without food, you'd think finishing the pacific crest trail would have been eugene yun's favorite memory of the trek. sure, it was nice, eugene says, but not the best. eugene yun: i could remember that moment like it was yesterday. i know exactly where i was standing. eugene: we did it. garvin: that came a couple of weeks earlier, somewhere in washington state. eu

there were difficulties with schoolwork and decreased speed of information processing.ou look at areas of the brain in regions that were vulnerable and it was interesting with a common complaint from people who have concussions and the next image shows a region that is important and, if you designed the injury that was calculated to damage cognition and behavioral symptoms, you could not have not come up with a better one. this comes nicely with what we know about the mechanics of the brain injury. charlie: do we know why some recover better than others? >> there are those who have had more than one injury that take longer to recover and there is an interesting link between behavioral and psychological issues. there seems to be an interaction with this and, some of the biomechanics are the same with stretches and strains impacting the region. we are finding some interesting work that suggests genetic factors impact this. you and i might differ for genes. >> the brains are always developing and new connections are being made. this is more dramatic during childhood which

difficultiesd some with schoolwork they are described as not thinking as quickly decreased speed of informationrocessing. areas of thet brain relevant to executive function you can see they are vulnerable to concussions. tori mentioned being somewhat moody this is an enormously common complaint from people who have concussion and other types of brain injuries. the whole psychological health aspect is effective. affected. if you are to design an injury that was designed to damage cognition and neurobehavioral functions, you really could have designed a better one unfortunately. what we know so far about how the brain is injured. erica alluded to some of the regions that we know of. folks that have had more than one injury take longer to recover. younger athletes may take longer to recover. a link with other kinds of psychological issues. struggles with those kinds of concerns in the past. seems to be a connection. not every injury that looks the same to us actually is the same. in terms of how the stresses of the strains affect different brain regions. there are some very interesting work sugges

. >> all my schoolwork was on there, resumes, thinks like that and then the film camera that i had -- it was my dads originally from when i was a baby. >> reporter: adding insult to injury -- >> they were all open done messed up -- >> reporter: it looked like they opened presents meant for family members and then cherry picked the ones they wanted. >> my stomach was churning and i started to cry. >> reporter: the roommates are all struggling students at san jose state who work one or two jobs and put themselves through school. >> none of us really have our parents to fall back on. my mom has struggled raising me and my brother on her own so i always knew that it was my responsibility to take care of myself. >> reporter: gabby decided to alert others. thousands started pouring in through a gofundme campaign. a woman even bike -- dropped off a bike and guitar. >> a woman baked cupcakes for us and that brought us to tears . it was really heartwarming. >> for strangers to do this but then for others to come and help us gives us hope. >> reporter: so for more than $11,000 has been raised t

living here in a situation like this with your children, they are not even able to do their schoolworkorter: about 22,000 people live at these hostiles, enduring cramped, poorly maintained housing. after months of violence, police patrol the area 24 hours a day, their resources stretched. over the past 18 months more than 50 people have been killed. people here say hit squads are responsible for the deaths. some believe the killings are politically motivated. this former political leader says he fears for his life. he fled after he was shot last year. >> translator: [ inaudible ], you know? that is where i saw a [ inaudible ] some of them they were shouting at me, run, run, run. those men want to kill you. >> reporter: the hostiles were both under apartheid, they were designed to keep black workers segregated from white people. two decades after apartheid was abolished any hostiles linger. >> reporter: the hostels in a sense represented the worst forms of apartheid, violence against black people in the most degrading sense. so the anc has for a long time, even prior to 1994, had the po

tori, i think, described some difficulties with schoolwork, and lots of our athletes describe that. they describe it as not thinking as quickly, sort of decrease of speed information processing, so-called executive function, and if you look at areas of the brain particularly relevant to executive function, they map nicely on the regions that are vulnerable to con cuesive injury. and then i thought it was interesting, tori, you mentioned being somewhat moody, somewhat depressed. this is an enormously common complaint from people who have concussion and other type of brain injuries, so the psychological health as suspect is impacted. and brain regions are thought to be important. once more, if you were to design an injury calculated to sort of damage cognition and neural behavioral symptoms, you couldn't have designed a better one, unfortunately. so the point of all this is, i think, the symptoms that we see follow very nicely from what we know so far about the mechanics of how the brain is injured. >> rose: do we know why some people recover better than others? >> well, eric alluded

margaret ouma ariokot: their schoolwork is good.mart and they are courting other children who are not going to school to come to school. [children singing] [blowing] children: left, right. left, right. [joel] [children singing] [margaret] [children singing] matthew omar: before we studied this type of strategy, the enrollment was low. [matthew] [children singing] [applause] [woman] [applause] [sarah] [upendra] [manisha] [upendra] [upendra] [woman] [girl] [woman] [upendra] [woman] [upendra] [woman] kofi annan: from issues of morality to issues of mortality, the denial of girls' rights begins early in childhood, when a choice has to be made. between educating a boy or a girl, girls are more likely to be kept at home. when a family needs income to be supplemented, girls are more likely to be sent to work. even when girls do go to school, they will often have to do housework at the expense of homework. when they become pregnant, school policies force them to drop out. when parents consider their daughter's future, they often see educati