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The power of Hope

Making hope happen in the classroom  By Shane J. Lopez | Oct 1, 2013 | Feature Article   Education HealthCare Public Services  Having hope leads to a 12% bump in school outcomes.  For the longitudinal studies, researchers recruited first-semester college students to complete a standardized measure of…..

Maryland students make limited progress on ‘Nation’s Report Card’

Baltimore City students showed significant gains, though scores remain low Maryland public schools remain stubbornly middle-of-the-pack on a national test, even as achievement inches upward. The state’s fourth graders performed better than two years ago on reading and math, according…..

US children fall further behind in reading, make little improvement in math on national exam

WASHINGTON (AP) — America’s children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as the nation’s report card. The findings are yet…..

Wellbeing

In the zeitgeist of the twenty-first century, “wellbeing” occupies a special place. It is an ideal of personal and communal living, as well as a concept to help us move beyond the tired old categories of progress — such as…..

Can Gen-Z Even Achieve The American Dream?

Jade ManningAugust 22, 2024 Teens in Print Growing up my idea of the “American dream” was getting your first car at 16, going to college (or moving out) at 18, one day being able to buy a house, getting to…..

Americans are split over the state of the American dream

By Gabriel Borelli  Pew Research Center “The American dream” is a century-old phrase used to describe the idea that anyone can achieve success in the United States through hard work and determination. Today, about half of Americans (53%) say that dream is still possible……

The American Dream is losing it’s dreamers.

As the United States prepares to turn 250 years old in 2026, the largest youth generation yet is crossing the threshold into adult citizenship. Today’s youth are tomorrow’s founders, setting the agenda for America’s future.  But warning bells are ringing……

What connecting to your future self can mean to your present

By Katherine Ellison Washington Post January 5th 2025 When asked why he didn’t begin writing novels until his 30s, the celebrated Czech author Milan Kundera said he didn’t have the requisite experience when he was younger. “This jerk that I was,…..

In the ‘SNAP Gap,’ a mother struggles to feed her kids and gets some help

By Katie Shepherd   Washington Post Dec 23 2024 A cluster of nails pierced Fallon Shoemaker’s tire as she drove her pickup truck along a busy highway in Maryland — a few short, sharp inches of bad luck that threatened to throw the single mother of three…..

An Exercise in Self- Esteem

No matter how brilliant an idea might be, for it to be truly ‘useful’, we must also understand how to put it into practice. To help, The School of Life will be bringing you a new exercise every week… giving…..