Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Originally Published at EmpathyEducates. On this the fifteen anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting it is time to remember what became our nations mission; we must protect our children. For Sam and his fellow survivors, it happens every [...]
By Adam Grant | Originally Published at The New York Times. April 11, 2014 What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than [...]
By Alan Schwarz and Sarah Cohen | Originally Published at The New York Times.March 31, 2013 Nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States and 11 percent of school-age children over all have received a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according [...]
Photos by Sarah Wilmer By Ryan D'Agostino | Originally Published at Esquire Magazine. March 27, 2014 | Published in the April 2014 issue By the time they reach high school, nearly 20 percent of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD. Millions of those boys will [...]
(Credit: Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) By Mary Elizabeth Williams | Originally Published at Salon. March 27, 2014Liberal arts take a beating again -- but don't sweat it, humanities majors Here’s a pop quiz for you. What words come to mind when I say “liberal arts education”? Are they, [...]
Photo: Sanofi Pasteur/Flickr. It begins before we enter school. You may have seen this in your sister, in your mother, or perhaps it is you. Have you tried and did less well than expected, not performed up to snuff; have you been a disappointment – to yourself [...]
Graphic; Olimpia Zagnoli By Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy | Originally Published at Gray Matter. The New York times. March 14, 2014 ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order [...]
Joshua Cintron, 10, prays during funeral services for his cousin, Naisha Pearson, at St. Luke's Church in the Bronx. Pearson, 10, was shot and killed by a stray bullet at a neighborhood Labor Day picnic in a Bronx park when a fight between two men erupted in [...]
Photograph; Drugs don't 'cure' a disease called ADHD, the way that antibiotics cure pneumonia. Getty Images By Alison Gopnik | Originally Published at Wall Street Journal. February 21, 2014 In the past two decades, the number of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder has nearly doubled. [...]
