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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.”…..
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…..
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…..
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…..