Digest #138: What Can (and Can’t) Neuroscience Tell Us About Education
So, trust me when I say that I am all for cross-talk and communication between neuroscience and education. However, with the increasing excitement surrounding neuroscience research I feel it’s necessary to discuss some of the limitations of the ability of neuroscience to inform and influence educational practice. This digest collects a few different resources that…
Breaking the Blue Wall of Silence: Changing the Social Narrative About Policing in America
This essay, by Narain Dubey, age 17, is one of the Top 12 winners of our Sixth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 10,509 entries. We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up this week, and you can find them here as they post. Excerpts from some will also be…
What Is Hard About Being a Boy?
Draw a line down the middle of a blank piece of paper. On the left side, write: “I am a male in society. Being a man means …” On the right side, “I am a female in society. Being a woman means …” Take several minutes to write at least 5 sentences for each column.…
How Much Do You Know About Vietnam?
Buzz, buzz, buzz. Whether it’s the roar of motorbikes, the near constant opening of bars and restaurants, the chatty nature of its inhabitants, or the abundance of great coffee, there’s just something invigorating about , Vietnam’s largest metropolis.
How Do You Feel About Censored Music?
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.What kind of music do you listen to? Do you ever listen to songs with lyrics that are explicit, suggestive or violent? Do you prefer the clean versions of these songs or the unedited ones? Why?In “Cardi…
Our Seventh Annual Student Editorial Contest: Write About an Issue That Matters to You
Contest Dates: Feb. 13, 2020 - April 1, 2020 Every school day, we use our daily Student Opinion feature to invite teenagers to share their opinions about questions we pose — and hundreds do, posting arguments, reflections and anecdotes. Now, for the seventh year in a row, we’re inviting them to make those thoughts into…
Learning About Slavery With Primary Sources
Then, if you would like to further investigate the broadside from a historical lens, you can use a document analysis worksheet from the National Archives. There are two worksheet options for written documents: one for secondary students and one for younger students and English-language learners.Part IIIf you would like more background, take some time to…
Have You Ever Worried About Making a Good First Impression?
In “First Impressions,” a winning essay from our 2019 Personal Narrative Contest for students, Isabel Hui writes about a time when she hoped to make a good impression — and what she learned about herself from it. Her narrative reads:When I woke up on August 4, 2016, there was only one thing on my mind:…
How Much Do You Know About Slovenia?
Can you find Slovenia on a map? What else do you know about this Central European nation with 2.1 million people.
How Should Parents Talk to Their Children About Drugs?
Have your parents ever talked to you about drugs? What did they say? What questions did they ask? Who initiated the conversation? Were the discussions helpful? Welcomed? Embarrassing? Enlightening? In “How to Talk to Your Kids About Drugs When Everyone Is Doing Them,” David Hochman writes: The assignment was to write a four-page research paper…
