Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Washington Post Watching news reports of the 132 dead in the Paris terrorist attacks, it’s natural to feel a jolt of fear. At times like this, we parents must dig deep for the courage we need […]
Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Washington Post Watching news reports of the 132 dead in the Paris terrorist attacks, it’s natural to feel a jolt of fear. At times like this, we parents must dig deep for the courage we need […]
Michael Alison Chandler, The Washington Post The D.C. Council wants to study how parents’ incarceration affects their children’s performance in schools across the District and the types of supports that might help these students. More than half of adults who […]
Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post My colleague Kevin Sieff wrote an important dispatch from Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on the country’s difficulties in demobilizing the many thousands of child soldiers drafted into the ranks of a number of feuding factions. […]
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post Parental concerns about student privacy have been rising in recent years amid the growing use by schools, school districts and states use technology to collect mountains of detailed information on students. Last year, a controversial […]
Emma Brown, The Washington Post The violent arrest of a South Carolina high school student in class last month has triggered new scrutiny of the nation’s school resource officers, whose numbers have increased in recent decades alongside concerns about school […]
Jamie Davis Smith, The Washington Post It’s an unhappy truth: At some point in your child’s life, it is likely that he will be bullied or be a bully. Possibly both. It is important that children know what to do […]
Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post Nancie Atwell is the renowned founder of the Center for Teaching and Learning, an award-winning non-profit independent K-8 demonstration school in Edgecomb, Maine, where she teaches seventh- and eighth-grade writing, reading and history. She is […]
Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post This week a 2-year-old in South Carolina found a gun in the back seat of the car he was riding in and accidentally shot his grandmother, who was sitting in the passenger seat. This type of […]
Rachel Pomerance Berl, The Washington Post On a recent Tuesday morning at Lafayette Elementary School in Northwest Washington, Sofia Parodi took a coveted seat at the head of the classroom and asked a fellow fourth-grader to switch off the lights. […]
Amy Joyce, The Washington Post My kids are and have been growing up in the age of the “no screen time for kids under age 2″ recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics. We pretty much tried to abide by […]