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…
The politics of education are broken and we are seeing the effects of it play out in real-time. In Chicago, a stalemate over remote learning…
Do you remember when teachers were heroes? It was a pretty great week. I got a couple of Amazon gift cards from my students and…
School boards (in some states “school committees”) sit at the intersection of civic engagement, local politics, and community service. The school board is a team…
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