December 4, 2023
The author and psychologist Lisa Damour has become somewhat of a celebrity among many parents of teenagers. “I’ve been Damour-alizing myself big time for about a month now,” said Rebecca Gold, a mother of three in Great Barrington, Mass. “I love her so much that I just created a verb in her honor.” Ms. Gold,
READ MOREIn the spring, Riana Shaw Robinson learned that her 11-year-old son, Madison, had sprinted out of class to chase a squirrel through his school’s courtyard in Berkeley, Calif. It’s not how her sixth grader would typically behave. But that day Madison hadn’t taken his Adderall — the medication that, in his words, helps his brain
READ MOREFor five years, Greta Thunberg has spent her Fridays in front of the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm instead of in class; after 251 weeks, she is hanging up her cardboard protest sign — as a student. What began as a 15-year-old with a singular message has spread into a global movement across 7,500 cities. Ms.
READ MOREA mass shooting on Wednesday, in which eight students and a security guard were killed at a school in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, was a reminder that such attacks are far less common outside the United States. “Something like this has never been recorded in the history of Belgrade schools,” said Milan Nedeljkovic, mayor of the
READ MOREBy law, justices may earn outside income from a limited number of sources: book advances and royalties, investments, and teaching. The judicial code of conduct specifically encourages teaching. Many justices have augmented their government salaries, which now hover beneath $300,000, by holding classes at schools including Harvard, Duke and Notre Dame. But Scalia Law quickly
READ MOREBASTAD, Sweden — Two academics had been killed at a highschool in Malmo in southern Sweden, and a pupil was arrested on suspicion of homicide, the police stated Tuesday. The motive for the assault was unclear. The police discovered each victims, two girls of their 50s, injured at Malmo Latin Faculty late Monday, after getting
READ MOREA Maryland legislative committee on Friday accepted the State Board of Schooling’s choice to permit all 24 native faculty districts to resolve whether or not to require face coverings in colleges. The choice, efficient instantly, ends an emergency order mandating the masking in colleges that had been in impact because the starting of the varsity
READ MOREExtra magic — or no less than the promise of it — abounds in Stuart Gibbs’s “As soon as Upon a Tim,” illustrated by Stacy Curtis. Gibbs is the writer of many earlier works, together with the Spy College and Charlie Thorne sequence. Followers of heraldic silliness like “The Princess Bride” and “Shrek” will enjoyment
READ MOREDavid Fleishman, the superintendent of colleges in Newton, Mass., an prosperous Boston suburb, stated he not too long ago acquired a message from a mum or dad who pushed for ending masks mandates in lecture rooms. However first, he stated, the person felt the necessity to guarantee him, “I’m not a Trump supporter.” Whereas Newton,
READ MORENEW DELHI — Some children have forgotten the alphabet or what their school rooms appear to be. Others have dropped out of faculty totally, scrounging for work and unlikely to ever resume their research. For years, India has been relying on its huge pool of younger folks as a wellspring of future development, a “demographic
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