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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 Caitlin Gibson December 28, 2021 at 10:21 a.m. EST Washington Post She’d spent 15 grueling months as a single, working mom of two children in the coronavirus pandemic, so when Eliza McCoy stood in the bright sunlight at her older daughter’s elementary school…..
Reflection from Archbishoip Tutu’s funeral We trust that beyond absence there is a presence. That beyond the pain there can be healing. That beyond the brokenness there can be wholeness. That beyond the anger there may be peace. That beyond the hurting there may…..
By Michael Gerson Washington Post Columnist December 23, 2021 at 4:23 p.m. EST Many in our country have lost the simple confidence that better days are ahead, for a variety of understandable reasons. There are the coronavirus’s false dawns, followed by…..
By Doris Iarovici December 18, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. EST The first-year student in my office was terrified. Here he was, finally living on the campus of the college he had dreamed of attending, and instead of joy, he experienced an…..
From reframing our notion of “good” schools to mining the magic of expert teachers, here’s a curated list of must-read research from 2021.By Youki Terada, Stephen Merrill, Sarah GonserDecember 9, 2021 Edutopia It was a year of unprecedented hardship for teachers and school…..
By Jonathan Holloway Dr. Holloway is the president of Rutgers University, a historian and the author, most recently, of “The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans.” July 2, 2021 This essay is part of a series exploring bold ideas to…..
By Bob Dole December 7th 2021 Bob Dole, who died on Sunday, represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1969 to 1996, including as Senate majority leader, and was the 1996 Republican nominee for president. This column was drafted early in 2021…..
By Deborah Farmer Kris November 30, 2021 Washington Post When my dad shook me awake at 2 a.m., I grumbled my way out to the backyard and onto the quilt he had spread out for me and my four siblings. Moments later,…..
Since covid, students have been angry. How can teachers help? By Meghan Leahy December 2nd 2021 Washington Post Q: I’m not a parent, but I am a high school teacher. There is a strong undercurrent of anger among our students. I’m trying to create a safe space…..
In the United States, as many as half of today’s 5-year-olds can expect to live to the age of 100, and this once unattainable milestone may become the norm for newborns by 2050. Yet, the social institutions, norms and policies…..