Guest Blogger
Parent
Chicago, Illinois
Alana G. Baum is a Chicago Public Schools parent, a clinical psychologist and an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, where she is teaching a seminar on the psychology of hate.
This is a stressful time for many urban eighth-grade students and parents who are considering high school options, and hearing…
At Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Israel, there’s a photograph of a father with his hands covering his young…
Like many psychologists throughout the country, I’ve received countless calls from parents and teachers struggling with how to address last…
Student data. Standardized testing. Accountability. These words set off a lot of big feelings among parents, educators and policymakers — especially fear and anger. Controversies…
Twenty-one months have passed since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency. With a new school year underway, the United States (U.S.) public school system…
In March, Dr. Seuss Enterprises decided to cease publication of six of the prolific writer’s works due to his demeaning caricatures of non-white ethnicities. This…
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