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When kids are deprived of play, their mental health suffers. Over the past 50 years, the time kids spend playing outside and inside has plummeted. They're missing opportunities to bond, build self-control, be creative, and feel joy. Free play is a key to happiness and growth.
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This is James Harrison. When he was 18, he learned that his blood contained an antibody that could treat a rare blood disease in infants. He donated blood every week for the next 60 years. By the time he was done, he'd saved more than 2.4 million lives.
Outstanding from Nancy Bailey: Little-Discussed Reasons Why Students Might Not Like to Read. Nancy shared nine things we do to put actual reading on the side as more of an afterthought - and harm kids in the process.@NancyEBailey1 nancyebailey.com/2023/07/19/lit…
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Little-Discussed Reasons Why Students Might Not Like to Read - Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Students don’t like to read. These rarely discussed reasons may explain why. Kindergarten is no longer a garden. Kindergartners are pressured to read. Before NCLB, over twenty years ago, this was...
Espectáculo dantesco, casi inhumano. 40.000 niños y niñas en el Congo trabajando en las minas de cobalto los 7 días de la semana. Mientras, la propaganda de los medios insiste: vehículos eléctricos para " salvar el planeta"
“…we need to think about the whole child, not just the academics, which are important, but we really need to focus on all the well-being - factors affecting the well-being of the student.” ~Peggy Carr - National Center for Educational Statistics npr.org/2023/06/22/118…
"These findings, for the first time, revealed the important relationships of early reading for pleasure with subsequent brain and cognitive development and mental well-being"
Early-initiated childhood reading for pleasure: associations with better cognitive performance, mental well-being and brain structure in young adolescence | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3XvCEom
A note to everyone posting jokes and memes about the Titanic submersible: Making fun of other people’s plight demeans you along with them. Regardless of the cause, ridiculing tragedy should be beneath all of us. Human suffering cries out for compassion, not schadenfreude.
Please read every word in this important thread from Paul Thomas! There are so many claims being spread in the name of SOR with no research backing. Citing untruths, for an agenda is unethical and harmful. Thank you for clarity, @plthomasEdD
With the release of NONSCIENTIFIC NCTQ "report" today, let's consider the work *that has not been done* despite HUGE negative claims in the SOR movement. Thread 1/x
As a parent I’m not worried that my 9 and 13 year olds are going to be “indoctrinated” with “wokeness” at school. I’m not worried that they’re going to ‘feel guilty about their whiteness’ because they’re learning accurate history. I’m not worried that they’re going to be…
Too often, we find people choosing to be great at their profession over being a great human being, believing that success or art or fame or power must be pursued to the exclusion of all else.
BREAKING: The gun used in yesterday’s Louisville bank shooting was an AR-15-style rifle, federal law enforcement says. The SAME gun more than 30 law enforcement officers were AFRAID to confront in Uvalde that left 19 children dead. The SAME gun that’s been the weapon of…
61% of kids who take vouchers in Florida drop out after two years and return to public schools, far behind their peers.
They’re banning our books. They’re attacking our teachers. Now they’re trying to defund our schools with voucher scams. This is a coordinated plan to dismantle public education. #txlege
I have posted this before but .. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/40bJHDa
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