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Young males in trouble
We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....

Joanne Jacobs
May 26, 20221 min read


The making of a mass murderer
The shooter in the Uvalde, Texas school massacre was “a lonely 18-year-old who was bullied over a childhood speech impediment, suffered...

Joanne Jacobs
May 25, 20222 min read


Teach students to meet deadlines, handle stress
When schools closed and classes went online, expectations fell. Some students had trouble accessing classes or younger siblings to tend...

Joanne Jacobs
May 19, 20222 min read


Zoom U was very bad for students
College students are not OK, writes Jonathan Malesic, who teaches first-year writing at Southern Methodist University, in a New York...

Joanne Jacobs
May 16, 20222 min read


The young Puritans
Overprotected by their parents, Gen Snowflake demands that college “make them comfortable,” argued Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendment...

Joanne Jacobs
May 14, 20222 min read


What to do with angry, unstable students
Photo: Pixabay In A day in the life of school social workers, Hechinger’s Peggy Barmore looks at how Schenectady (New York) schools...

Joanne Jacobs
May 2, 20221 min read
Emotionally Disturbed Students At School
Is special education law creating dangerous conditions in American schools? In an effort to ensure that schools are “inclusive,” IDEA...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 6, 20201 min read
No clapping, please. Use your ‘jazz hands’
Clapping and cheering have been banned at University of Manchester Student Union events, lest the noise upset “students with anxiety or...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 2, 20181 min read


The power of struggle
Zachary Wright “had to drag my son kicking and screaming into kindergarten.” He remembered his own “struggles with anxiety, depression...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 2, 20181 min read


Lawnmower parents raise anxious kids
A middle-school teacher is called to the office so Dad can hand over his child’s water bottle. The girl doesn’t like drinking from the...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 1, 20182 min read


Has your child ever seen a therapist?
Florida schools are asking for students’ mental health histories on registration forms, reports Julio Ochoa on NPR. Parents worry their...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 23, 20181 min read


Those unhappy college years
Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,”...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 13, 20181 min read


Teens demand the right to remain silent
Ninety percent of hiring managers say oral communications is a critical skill for job-seekers, according to a recent survey by the...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 12, 20182 min read


Defend the status quo or go kid-centric?
Teachers’ unions should adopt a kid-centric policy in response to the Janus decision, writes Paul Reville in Ed Week. Leaders will need...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 30, 20181 min read


How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 23, 20182 min read


Why are kids killing themselves?
The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 11, 20182 min read
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