“the saddest and most ironic practice in schools is how hard we try to measure how students are doing and how rarely we ever ask them.” | Jesse Stommel
“… pushing school start times back to 8:30 a.m. or later…that this could contribute up to around $83 billion to the U.S. economy over a decade span. Fatal car crashes involving sleep-deprived teens would go down. Car crashes are the biggest killer of U.S. teenagers.”
“…children as young as 3 years of age are able to use reputational cues to guide their behavior, and that telling young children they have a positive reputation for being smart can have negative consequences.”
“Don’t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort-not on intelligence or ability-is key to success in school and in life”
“The most important things to look for is how the adults interact with children. You want to see them engage with children in a way that is positive, nurturing and genuinely curious.”
“Back in 2001, the Atlantic’s September issue featured a big story… about the way elite-college admissions had been transformed, and warped, through the Faustian bargain of the “early decision” system.”
“…normalizing over-parenting can lead young adults to experience an “existential impotence.” They end up feeling incapable of handling life’s challenges on their own.”
“teachers say discussion-based English seminars allow for sensitive conversations by proxy… fiction allows them a touchstone to get into that conversation.”