"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 [...]
By Joyce McFadden | Originally Published at Huffington Post. June 13, 2012 5:47 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; francisco_osorio[Flickr] As mothers, we want to do everything humanly possible to make sure our daughters live happy, healthy lives. I spoke with 450 women about whatever was most important [...]
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 [...]
Even those of us who aren't religious tend to rely on some notion of a soul.' Illustration: John Holcroft for the Guardian. Click on picture for full frame Are they both essentially the same thing, asks Oliver Burkeman By Oliver Burkeman | Originally Published at [...]
Photograph; AP/Getty Images By Noam Chomsky | Originally Published at In These Times. April 4, 2012 One of America’s greatest achievements is being defunded and degraded by the dictates of the marketplace. Public education is under attack around the world, and in response, student protests have [...]
