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Guess Whose Children Are Deprived

By Chick Moorman and Thomas Haller
 Robert White and Ernesto Gonzalez live on the same street. They work for competing insurance companies and earn approximately the same salary. Both men are married and have two children in elementary school. Both men attend school conferences and have regular family dinners.
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Multitasking Virus In Our Classrooms

By Josh Waitzkin
A few weeks ago, I returned to the classroom of Dennis Dalton, the most important college professor of my life. From the back of an amphitheater seating several hundred students, I realized how much things had evolved at Columbia and Barnard. The lecture hall was now equipped with a wireless sound system, webcams, [...]

Preparing Your Child for Today’s World

Preparing Your Child for Today’s World:
10 Tips for Teaching and Protecting Your Child
By Paula Statman
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How do you prepare your to child to navigate safely and confidently in the world, ready to deal with situations and people he or she may encounter?  Here are 10 parenting tips to help make the journey a little more effective.
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Escalate Your Teaching

A class trip to Washington DC produced an interesting teaching opportunity for Mrs. Harper as she accompanied a small group of sixth-graders to the subway station. The station attendant asked them if they were on their way to ride the escalator. “What escalator?” two of the students asked simultaneously. “The second-longest escalator in the world,” [...]

Mindful Parenting Tips: Meltdowns, Don’t Fix Them or Stop Them!

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