Sanje Ratnavale analyzes the clash of competing ideologies on identity, truth and reason at schools.
March 29, 2023 Building Character When the Covid-19 pandemic began, it was difficult to find an article about adolescence that didn’t mention the uptick in anxiety among young people, including
February 27, 2023 Dr. Jill Walsh is a sociologist who studies how teens use digital spaces to shape their identities. In Adolescents and Their Social Media Narratives, she explores how
So often parents focus on the “right” age for a phone, for social media accounts, for online gaming permission, a YouTube Channel all their own, that we spend a lot
August 4, 2021 For many adults, the words “middle school,” evoke a negative, gut-level response. These reactions are grounded in our own potent memories from that time, says Phyllis Fagell,
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This article, by Julie King, director of educational technology at The Buckley School (NYC), is the first in a series entitled “What Are The Currents of Connection?” There will be
It had been two years since my student received a guitar as a holiday gift from his parents. Unwrapped and then left propped in the corner of his closet was
This is the first of a two-part series on embedded formative assessment in remote learning environments. Schools have historically featured students taking summative assessments in formal, monitored, physical spaces. In
Among the challenges for the advocates for high-quality digital learning throughout much of 2020 was distinguishing good practices from the emergency remote learning that was too often implemented poorly by