For the Love of Reading: Engaging Students in a Lifelong Pursuit

By Daniel T. Willingham 2015

How should American teens spend their leisure time? I recently asked* American adults this question, after explaining that the typical teen enjoys approximately five hours of leisure time each weekday.1 The activity with the highest response, irrespective of race, education, and other demographic factors, was reading. Adults thought teens ought to […]

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From Distress to De-Stress

Ideas for Teachers, Parents and others helping anxious, worried kids

By Jerome Schultz, Ph.D.

Teach kids how to relax.

Consider this vignette:

Roxanne: (agitated and loudly) I can’t stand this freakin’ book!

Teacher: Roxanne, you need to take it easy. Just calm down! Try to relax. You need to finish your reading.

Roxanne: (to herself) […]

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For New Orleans teen parents, summer school is hands-on

By Danielle Dreilinger, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

15-year-old Lashuntia Copelin plays with her 8-month-old daughter Londyn, while Jamal Gibson, 17 plays along during a break in a teen parenting class. Landry-Walker High School and the Center for Development and Learning are piloting a program for teen parents, Wednesday, July 2, 2014. In the background, Alice Thomas, […]

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Ways Parents Can Ease Test Anxiety

By: Keisha Dubuclet, The Center for Development and Learning 

While this is the time of year we welcome warmer and brighter days, and look forward to the brilliant colors of flowers, anxiety is blooming in many of our kids.  With the first third of the season focused on taking the LEAP and iLEAP, the “all-or-nothing” climate […]

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