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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 [...]

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 [...]

Amy Valens Amy Valens began her teaching career in 1968 in the public schools of Dayton Ohio. After a brief stint teaching in an independent Summerhill based school in Los Angeles, she returned to public school teaching in Northern California. She joined the [...]

Deborah W. Meier Deborah W. Meier currently serves as the Chair of Save Our Schools Board. She taught in urban K-12 public schools for near fifty years. Deb founded nationally-renowned public schools. She is also also a Board member and Director of New [...]

Dr. Sherick Hughes Dr. Sherick Hughes is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Program Coordinator of the Cultural Studies and Literacies Program in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His scholarship includes over 40 publications (either [...]