by Jen Cort, Founder, Jen Cort Educational Consulting Recent events such as the mass shooting in California and riots in Baltimore have lead to conversations about religious discrimination and racism. Parents often find themselves wanting to either shield their children from these conversations or uncertain where to begin. Believing the very best solutions to
by Neal Brown, Green Acres School, Head of School This past week, our 8th graders finished taking their last round of the Comprehensive Testing Program 4 (CTP 4), a test provided by the Educational Records Bureau (ERB). Once each year, we administer this standardized test to our 6th through 8th graders, not without some ambivalence.
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by Dara Thorner, Psy.D, Georgetown Psychology Associates Everyone experiences anxiety at some point or another, some more frequently and more intensely than others. When we are in an anxious state, we are simply experiencing the biological consequences of our brains communicating to our bodies that there is a possible danger, and that we need to
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by Emily Richmond, Public Editor, Education Writers Association Students in public schools are eating healthier cafeteria meals made from an increasing array of locally sourced food, according to new federal data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA surveyed school districts to evaluate the impact of “Farm-to-School” initiatives in place at over 42,000 campuses. More than 10,000
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by Neal Brown, Head of School, Green Acres School In “What Happened to Kids Addressing Adults by their Last Names?” (Washington Post, September 18, 2015) Danielle Larkins lit a small fire under larger cultural “wars” in this country about traditional etiquette, parenting, and respect for elders. While I respect her view and can see how
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by Sarah Travis, Upper School Math Teacher, St. John’s Episcopal School In February of 2013, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conducted a study and found that 15-year-old girls around the world outperform boys in science – except for in the United States, Britain and Canada. Additional research indicates that it is social and
Which princess is your daughter? by Jen Cort, Founder, Jen Cort Educational Consulting jencort.com I admit being into princesses does not come naturally to me and I quietly celebrated that my daughter wasn’t interested in them either. That was until we were in the planning her first trip to Disney World where she could meet “the
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by Dr. Neal Brown, Head of School, Green Acres School My mentor Ted Sizer emphasized that schools’ most important purpose should be to help students “use their minds well.” Embedded in this simple statement is the notion that a broad, general, or liberal education—rooted in daily exposure to math, science, literature, social sciences, and the
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by Jonathan Oleisky, President, Kalix Communications What do you get when you pack 200 college admissions counselors, over a thousand Maryland area independent school juniors and their parents into a crowed Baltimore area hotel? You get the 2015 AIMS College Fair, which was held last night in Timonium. As the parent of a high school
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by Trevor Waddington, DCschoolHUB, Founder I keep hearing that the future of education is now, but I look around and fail to see any major changes to the overall education system in the United States. If you Google, “United States Education Ranking” you will find hundreds of surveys, blogs, and statistics that point to the
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