Image; Seattle Municipal Archives/Flickr With thanks to my parents who often practiced as they preached. Mom and Dad reflected, in raising a child you need to think – Does my tone of voice, body language, and facial expression, all together, communicate what I believe? If as a [...]
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 [...]
Originally Published at ViceNews. June 5, 2014 1:00 PM There's an epidemic of PTSD in American cities, and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's urban war zones are leaving thousands of teenagers with [...]
First lady Michelle Obama exercises with children from Chicago Public Schools, in her hometown of Chicago, as she makes a major announcement helping to bring back physical activity to area schools, while celebrating the third anniversary of her 'Lets Move' program. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) Introductory Essay [...]
Photographic Credit: Flickr/Judy Baxter By Jim Newell | Originally Published at Salon. May 22, 2014 During the Democrats’ productive 2010 lame-duck session of Congress, one of the major legislative items they were able to pass was the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, a.k.a. “Michelle Obama’s child nutrition bill.” [...]
We need to stop telling girls that their existence is problematic to men. Photograph: Alamy By Jessica Valenti | Originally Published at The Guardian. May 21, 2014 Dress codes assume that male students' education needs to be protected. What girls need doesn't rate Now that the [...]
Photograph; Luis Mateo and Kasandra Vega, who both left high school without a degree, are involved in the culinary program of the United Teen Equality Center, in Lowell, Mass. | Evan Richman / For NBC NEWS From the moment Luis E. Mateo started high school in Lowell, [...]
By Paul Buchheit | Common Dreams. May 19, 2014 Many wealthy Americans believe that dysfunctional behavior causes poverty. Their own success, they would insist, derives from good character and a strict work ethic. But they would be missing some of the facts. Ample evidence exists to show [...]
By Maggie Fox | Originally Published at NBCNews April 29, 2014 11:50 am It may come as no surprise to teachers, but girls do better than boys in school, a new study finds. What may be a surprise is that this holds true at all [...]
