By Laurie Levy | AlterNet. August 6, 2014 Kindergarten was once about play and experimentation. Why can't it be that way again? My grandson, like millions of other five- and six-year-olds across the country, is about to start his formal education in kindergarten. Like most kids, he’s [...]
Greetings and Salutations! We haven’t met yet, but we will meet soon. I need to apologize in advance because I am going to be one of “those” parents. You know, the ones who are constantly checking in, perhaps over protective to a fault. In my [...]
Dear Dr. Kovacs, It’s nice to “meet” you! I cannot wait to have your son in my class this year. There is no need for you to apologize for being “that” parent. I will take an engaged, interested, hands-on parent over a “no show” any [...]
Are we measuring basic facts about children? Or basic facts about rich kids? Developmental Psychology’s Weird Problem Courtesy of Shutterstock By Jane Hu | Originally Published at Slate. June 25, 2014 7:09 AM Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past few years, I’ve gotten [...]
Photograph; Mound Bayou, Mississippi, 1976 (Credit; Alex Webb/Magnum Photos) We can change the brain, through more than education. Nurturing, studies suggest, is a far more powerful medicine. The research replicated reveals that compassion can ameliorate the burdensome conditions that poverty brings, if we consider…. Inequality Begins at [...]
Credit: Shutterstock We Socialize Girls To Be Better at School But Set Them Up For Failure in the Real World By Sarah Jane Glynn | Originally Published at Think Progress. April 30, 2014 2:43 PM The New York Times’s Upshot blog reported on Tuesday that the [...]
By Paul L. Thonas, Ed.D. | Originally Published at The Becoming Radical. April 2, 2014 children guessed (but only a few) and down they forgot as up they grew “[anyone lived in a pretty how town],” e.e. cummings In one of those early years of becoming and [...]
By Kimberly Hefling and Jesse J. Holland | Originally Published at Associated Press. Yahoo News. March 21, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers. The racial disparities in American education, from access to [...]
Photograph by Matthew Hinton | Kelly and Noah Fischer Originally Published at Southern Poverty Law Center. | March 12, 2014 Kelly Fischer’s hopes were quickly dashed last fall. She was attending a High School Fair in New Orleans, a chance for parents to meet representatives from the [...]
