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Service Employees International United [SEIU] and the National Action Network invite one and all to join the National Day for Dignity and Respect: October 5th
 STAND TOGETHER FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM!On October 5, 2013, the broadest and most diverse movement in our country right now will bring together [...]

Daniel Goleman's New Focus – By Joshua Freedman | Originally Published at Six Seconds September 24, 2013 What’s your focus? How do you decide? Do feelings play a role? Daniel Goleman’s new book explores the research and practice of attention — which turns out to be a [...]

Taking Back Childhood. A Proven Roadmap for Raising Confident, Creative, Compassionate Kid by Nancy Carlsson Paige, Ed.D. a Professor Emerita at Lesley University. Nancy taught teachers for more than 30 years. She has written and spoken extensively about the impact of media on children’s lives and social [...]

Beyond Remote-Controlled Childhood: Teaching Young Children in the Media Age by Diane E. Levin, Ph.D., a professor of early childhood education at Wheelock College in Boston, invites Educators to reflect on children’s well-being and consider the milieu that exists within a world of screens. We [...]

Diane E. Levin Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. is Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts where she has been training early childhood professionals for over twenty-five years. She teaches courses on play, violence prevention, action research and a summer institute on [...]

Arrested For Zero Tolerance “The scariest part was probably being handcuffed.” By all accounts Kyle Thompson is a normal 14-year old kid who loves playing football and hanging out with his friends. His principal says [...]

Nancy Carlsson Paige Nancy Carlsson Paige is Professor Emerita at Lesley University where she taught teachers for more than 30 years and was a founder of the University's Center for Peaceable Schools. Nancy has written and spoken extensively about the impact of media [...]

School-Prison-To-Pipeline – The Civil Liberties Challenge The ACLU is committed to challenging the "school to prison pipeline," a disturbing national trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. [...]

Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, M.Ed. is a founding teacher of the Mission Hill K-8 School. She serves as the Director of Defending the Early Years and Empowered by Play, which she also founded in 2009. Ms Bywater McLaughlin, a teacher-turned-activist, became [...]