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The key to taking effective action is to avoid perpetuating the autocrat’s goals of fear, isolation and exhaustion.

The claim that autistic people lack a theory of mind—that they fail to understand that other people have a mind or that they themselves have a mind—pervades psychology. This article (a) reviews empirical evidence that fails to support the claim that ...

Turnaround’s Whole-Child Design Blueprint is a framework for transformational change, grounded in science - taking the most important lessons across many bodies of research on how kids really learn and develop and making them actionable in any classroom, school, or district.

The Science section of the Turnaround for Children Toolbox empowers educators with the resources dive deep into research on how kids really learn and develop.

Schooling Beyond Measure - Alfie Kohn

The U.S. needs to reassure the world it has the outbreak under control.

Syllabus in constant progress Working on a syllabus for the Trump 2.0 era – essential readings for the resistant type under the slope or cliff of authoritarianism we are about to go over. The…

A leading children's online safety expert worries a teen social media ban may end up removing a lifeline for vulnerable young Australians.

The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

Background Given the colonial connotations of the term “stakeholder”, its continued use may be perceived as disrespectful to Indigenous Peoples. While several groups have introduced alternative term...

This article explores some of the varied experiences autistic people can have navigating the space between non-speaking and fully speaking.

Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could've been done differently,

We seek to understand how individuals' views on the economy are influenced by the information they are exposed to through media usage and political talk network

Through an autobiographical film production program for high school students, CANDLE researchers explore a new kind of developmental science in education

Autistic adolescent girls face complex and diverse challenges in the school setting, specifically mental health issues, unmet social and education needs, and so...

Neurodiversity means that all people’s brains process information differently from each other. In other words, people think and learn in a variety of ways. Being neurodivergent means that the way a person’s brain processes information might be quite distinctive, or even rare—and in some cases this difference might have a name, like ADHD, autism, or dyslexia. About one person in every five is neurodivergent: maybe you are neurodivergent yourself! In this article, we discuss the ways that neurodiversity can affect how people experience day-to-day life. We explain some of the research that has explored how neurodivergent people process information. We also share some on-going research that focuses on making places like schools and hospitals more comfortable for neurodivergent people. When we all understand what neurodiversity is, it is easier for everyone to be themselves, no matter how they think, feel and learn.

Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes.

The Democratic Party should jettison its consultant class and move toward a local-membership model that would help to rejuvenate civic life across the country.

Shocking new figures.

We’re used to taking the web for granted. We expect it to be there as substrate, with its addresses, declaratory documents, universally avai...

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time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

The author of the recent paper on the long term effects of statewide pre-k programs recommends using an iceberg model of early developmental competencies instead of academic preschools.

Accumulating evidence from developmental social-affective neuroscience and educational research reveals striking affordances for adolescents’ academic…

Did white women or Hispanic men doom the Harris campaign? Or were we just crazy to believe the U.S. was ready to elect a Black woman?

As an electorate besieged by disinformation turned to Trump, trust in traditional media has imploded. What comes next?

Given the tenor of the United States’ national political discourse and the increasingly high stakes attributed to election cycles by people across the political spectrum, elections and their consequences permeate our learning environments. At the same time, in light of everything we have individually and collectively experienced over the past several years, the energy and […]