The Global Search for Education: Campus Talk
The aim of “Campus” is to allow experts on a diverse range of topics, from neuroscience to eating disorders to cyber-bullying, to share perspectives with educators. “Campus,” an idea born in Finland (the top ranking country in education according to recent international comparisons), is an exclusive professional seminar for all New York City public school teachers that will be held this Saturday, May 4th...
The Global Search for Education: Health and Education Part 2
“Children with ADHD are typically comparable on estimates of IQ and cognitive abilities, suggesting that their disorder is what is getting in the way of learning.” — Dr. Gregory Fabiano Inattention and hyperactivity is one of the most common types of mental and behavioral health problems that affects youth, according to Dr. Charles Basch, author of Healthier Students Are Better Learners. In Basch’s...
The Global Search for Education: Health and Education
“Highly prevalent, specific health problems have powerful effects on students’ motivation and ability to learn, and have not been addressed well in our nation’s schools.” — Chuck Basch Today I begin a series of articles to focus on problems that affect our domestic achievement gap, with the objective of identifying solutions for these issues. Should health disparities be a fundamental part of...
The Global Search for Education: When Little Children Die
“Grief will affect all. The trauma of losing a young child never goes away and the grief may be quite protracted, but healing occurs over time.” – Dr. Brian Fallon When beautiful little children and their brave teachers die in a senseless act of unspeakable violence such as the one at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the nation cries. The nation prays for relief from its overwhelming grief and from these prayers...
The Global Search for Education: It Takes a Community
“We believe that influencing the bystanders is a key to successful prevention of bullying.” — Professor Christina Salmivalli It takes a community to prevent bullying in schools, which is expected to affect 13 million children in the U.S. in the current school year. Stopping the bullying epidemic also requires funding, research, a holistic program developed with that research plus the collaboration and...
The Global Search for Education: What Is Good?
“How do we preserve some sense of Truth, Beauty and Goodness at a time we have so much change going on?” — Howard Gardner. Photo by Megan Morr, Duke Photography. Truth, Beauty, Goodness — what do they mean to young and old in a 21st century world experiencing dramatic technological and philosophical change? A man who understands the difficulty in educating for the virtues in a challenging new age is...
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