Le phénomène du perfectionnisme s’est considérablement amplifié au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, et il affecte autant les hommes que les femmes. Plus...03 mars 2019
Une épidémie de perfectionnisme s'abat sur les jeunes
Le phénomène du perfectionnisme s’est considérablement amplifié au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, et il affecte autant les hommes que les femmes. Plus...Comment les jeunes Québécois d’origine haïtienne réussissent à l'école… envers et contre tout !
Les parents des jeunes d'origine haïtienne d'aujourd'hui font partie de la deuxième vague d'immigration. Installés au Québec depuis le milieu des années 70, ils sont pour la plupart issus de couches populaires et rurales, peu ou pas scolarisées et maîtrisant peu le français. Plus...Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
People who speak another language score higher on tests and think more creatively, have access to a wider variety of jobs, and can more fully enjoy and participate in other cultures or converse with people from diverse backgrounds. More...3 tips: How to teach children to watch commercials more closely
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While critics charge that charter schools are siphoning money away from public schools, a more fundamental issue frequently flies under the radar: the questionable business practices that allow people who own and run charter schools to make large profits. More...Amazon pullout from NYC shows the perils of partnerships between higher education and business
Amazon’s recent decision to pull out of plans to establish a new headquarters in New York City received a lot of attention. Much of it focused on whether the big tax breaks the company would have gotten as part of the deal were fair and reasonable. More...3 things schools should teach about America’s history of white supremacy
When it comes to how deeply embedded racism is in American society, blacks and whites have sharply different views.For instance, 70 percent of whites believe that individual discrimination is a bigger problem than discrimination built into the nation’s laws and institutions. Only 48 percent of blacks believe that is true. More...
What’s behind the teacher strikes: Unions focus on social justice, not just salaries
For the past few years I’ve been studying teacher unions and teachers strikes throughout the Americas. My research has taken me from the Mexican state of Oaxaca – where teacher protests in 2006 led to both violent repression and a broad-based social movement for direct democracy – to the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, to coal-mining towns in West Virginia. More...School shooters usually show these signs of distress long before they open fire, our database shows
Two years before he lined his schoolmates up against a classroom wall and executed them one by one, the student, who would become the gunman, tried to show his English teacher something important. He had quietly slid up his sleeves to reveal the cut marks running down his arms. The teacher panicked. More...
Just what are ‘zero tolerance’ policies – and are they still common in America’s schools?
When parents and educators discuss school discipline, one of the things that comes up most are “zero tolerance” policies. This term is often misused and misunderstood, according to new research I published recently. More...
