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The kids are not okay, and D.C. schools stand to lose crucial therapists

Students and advocates have expressed concern while pleading with lawmakers to invest more, despite budget cuts, toward mental health services in schools Perspective by Theresa VargasMetro columnist April 19, 2023 at 3:43 p.m. EDT Last spring, Briana D’Accurzio was one of…..

How to defend against the rise of ChatGPT? Think like a poet.

Jaswinder Bolina’s “English as Second Language and Other Poems” is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. And so we’ve come to the end of the world again, and this time, it will be death by a thousand chattering bots. But apocalypse aside,…..

What Is Future-Mindedness?

By Nate Barksdale Future-mindedness, or prospection, is the ability to envision and think about the future. It’s something that so many organisms do that it’s been described as a core organizing principle of animal and human behavior. Countless animals use prospection…..

4 Books That Taught Me Much More Than My Expensive Degree

Margaret Pan  On Medium When affordable books have much more value than expensive courses I don’t regret the time I spend in college but, in hindsight, the things I learned sitting in endless lectures and studying dozens of textbooks had little value…..

Hope and Grit: Companions on the Road to Change

Philosopher of education Sarah Stitzlein on the power of pragmatist hope. By Annelise Jolley This piece is from the Templeton Ideas archives. It was originally published in 2021. In 2016, psychologist Angela Duckworth published the book Grit: The Power and Passion…..

Science of forgetting: Why we’re already losing our pandemic memories

By Richard SimaBRAIN MATTERS Science of forgetting: Why we’re already losing our pandemic memories How much do you remember about the past three years of pandemic life? How much have you already forgotten? A lot has happened since the “Before Times.”…..

Deeply Affected by the Pandemic, Youth Are Committed to Helping Others

July 14, 2020 Young people in America have been hit hard by COVID-19, but they’re taking action to help their communities and it’s influencing their political views and engagement. Young people in America have been uniquely and disproportionately affected by…..

Youth Are Interested in Political Action, but Lack Support and Opportunities

January 30, 2023 Young people continue to believe in their—and their generation’s—political power, but some don’t feel qualified to participate. Lead author: Ruby Belle BoothContributors: Alberto Medina, Kelly Siegel-Stechler, Abby Kiesa Following a 2022 election cycle in which youth (ages 18-29) played…..

Youth Right Now: The State of Kids in America

Posted 08/19/2022 by Jim Clark, President & CEO, Boys & Girls Clubs of America in Our Experts It is an interesting time to gauge how kids are doing, as millions of students head back to school just over two years into a global…..

The Student Knows- MyScore

MyScore privileges  a different site and source of knowledge.It makes the student the expert, not the teacher. Not the parent. Not the researcher. What does that mean?__________________________________________________________ A DIFFERENT KIND OF RESEARCHThe researcher wants to know specifics. She wants to…..