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15 Calming Affirmations for Parents as School Starts in a Pandemic
Back-to-school time is usually a happy stress. This year, the pandemic and school closures have us all feeling extra anxious and stressed in a not-so-happy way. Try these affirmations for returning to school during a pandemic.
A Teacher Creates His Toughest Test
Are students energized by my lessons or thinking of something else?
Another Reason to Stamp Out Bullying
Bullied children go on to have greater risk of substance abuse a few years later.
Film Review: He Named Me Malala
He Named Me MalalaDirected by Davis GuggenheimFox Searchlight PicturesThe terrifying plight of Malala Yousafzai, the teenaged Pakistani girl shot in the face by the Taliban in 2012…
How to Empty Your Head
For years now I have been telling audiences about my alternative to higher education. I call it lower education. You come to my school and on the first day we give you a Ph.D. You …
Leaders of the New School: An Evolutionary Education
With the state of the American education system in crisis and the testing levels of kids in traditional public schools on the decline, the future of our children seems uncertain. O…
Nourishing the Hearts and Minds of Children
“For children to be well-rounded humans they need education of the heart as well as the mind.”
Should Public Schools Teach Religion to Kids?
Reader question: My kids are in a public elementary school that teaches them about religion. I’m concerned about this. What if anything should public schools teach our children abo…
Teaching What Matters
When I was in graduate school, I was fascinated by a play by Eugene Ionesco called The -Lesson. In it a young woman studies for the total doctorate, but she has a problem. She can …
The Bribery and Fraud Unmasks a Larger Spiritual Crisis
Every spiritual tradition has warned us that money, power, and prestige provide only transient satisfaction and the temporary elation they provide invariably fades, leaving us once again discontent and in hot pursuit of the next deluded hope for enduring fulfillment. If spiritual sources are not convincing enough, scientific studies on happiness now confirm this perennial wisdom.
The Commons: “Lettuce, Turnip, the Beet!”
Sing the fight song of Community School 55, the happily growing Green Bronx Machine.
The Heart of Money: Is Going Back to School the Best Way to Invest in Myself?
Q: I’m thinking about going back to school. Biz school, law school, grad school? I’m not sure which. All I know is that I can’t spend the next 20 years doing what I’m doing, and I …
The Heart of Money: Pay for Preschool or Save for College?
Teachers offer their input in the question between saving for early education or college.
We Are All Responsible for Shootings
When I was a school counselor, there was a girl in the sixth grade who was absent more than present. When she did make it to school, kids called her “Dead Girl” because of her mono…
