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(From 2017) Tomorrow we have our fourth Annual Storytelling Festival for the AmeriCorps programs of Maryland. Our hosts at Casa Maryland and Pablo Blank always provide a warm welcome in their amazing space. Each year, we try different things and…..
By Michael Massing Mr. Massing is the author of “Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind.” https://vp.nyt.com/video/2023/04/26/108032_1_27Massing_wg_1080p.mp4 Ramped up, amped up, ratchet up, gin up, up the ante, double down, jump-start, be behind the curve, swim against…..
By Nicole Asbury Montgomery County Public Schools’ new social studies framework will expose fourth- and fifth-graders to more American history — particularly Black history — at a younger age. The new curriculum will incorporate anti-bias and anti-racist content and local history…..
By Nicole Asbury The number of incidents of hate have increased exponentially in Montgomery County Public Schools, leading Superintendent Monifa B. McKnight to roll out several initiatives, from more teacher training to a community advisory group, to combat the problems.r McKnight…..
By Amanda Ripley Contributing columnist At a cocktail party in a crowded Washington living room some years ago, I met a magazine editor who was working on a high-profile new book. It would transport the reader into the future, he told me,…..
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…..
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,…..
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…..
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…..
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…..
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.”…..