It is said that experience is the best teacher; I think for most, it is the worst. Too often, experience teaches us to be protective. We run. We fall and we run again, or least we did. But then there was the lesson. 'Do not dare. Approach [...]
By Megan Carpentier | Originally Published at The Raw Story. September 13, 2012 16:29 EDT Like many Americans, my access to a quality public education was the single most important determining factor for my access to the middle class (via a college education funded by subsidized federally-issued [...]
Americans love their freedom and the freedom to choose – well that is the best. We want to choose our cars, our sushi bars; we want the optimal plan. When it comes to our children there can be no exception. Parents will do anything to ensure that [...]
"Time outs don’t work for parents who are unwilling to put themselves in an adult time out — which is what’s really needed" By Jayson Gaddis | Good Men Project. July 3, 2012 | Photographic Credit Matthew Brown/E+/Getty Images. In my opinion, we need a big [...]
By Amanda Gardner | Originally Published atCable News Network/Health.com. Thursday, June 14, 2012 (Health.com) -- Obese children and teenagers face a slew of potential health problems as they get older, including an increased risk of diabetes, heart attacks, and certain cancers. As if that weren't enough, obesity [...]
Drawing By James Stevenson. By Jonah Lehrer | Originally Published at The New Yorker. June 12, 2012 Editors’ Note: The introductory paragraphs of this post appeared in similar form in an October, 2011, column by Jonah Lehrer for the Wall Street Journal. We regret the duplication of [...]
Illustration by Andreas Samuelsson. Photograph by Thomas Hannich When old is new again and new is old the conversation must be about education. Throughout our history people have fought for the right to educate all equally and then turned the mission over to the masters, the moguls, [...]
If it takes a village to raise a child, the same village must share accountability when many children are educationally abandoned. In New York City, the nation’s largest school system, on average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood [...]
By Elizabeth Whitman | Originally Published at The Nation. April 26, 2012 Schools have morphed from extensions of a community into centers that more closely resemble factories and prisons, says David Stovall, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. What will it take to confront [...]
