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Children and adults today spend large amounts of time online and adults can help create a culture of caring online by modeling kindness both online and offline. In this article in HuffPost, author and parent expert Sue Scheff shares tips and ideas to help parents lead by example.
Read MoreMaking Caring Common’s research was featured in this article by Rewire.News, which included our finding that a majority of 18-to-25-year-olds had never discussed with parents how to make sure their partner wants to have sex, how to determine their own comfort levels, the importance of not pressuring or persisting when someone says no, how to know how drunk is “too drunk,” or how to be a caring and respectful sexual partner. Now some coaches are bringing the conversation straight to the locker room.
Read MoreTurning the Tide endorser University of Chicago has announced a new test-optional policy that allows students to decide what information best represents their skills and college readiness.
Read MoreAfter launching the nationwide KIND Schools Challenge last fall, the KIND Foundation and Making Caring Common were tasked with choosing one winner out of nearly 200 submitted student projects. The winning project was created by three Medford High School juniors – Jenna Agnone, Luiza Barbosa and Rubia Fernandes. The students learned they had won the challenge at an assembly for the entire junior class. Read more in Wicked Local Medford.
Read MoreThree Medford High School juniors were surprised to learn they won the national KIND School Challenge at an assembly in front of their classmates Tuesday. Rubia Fernandes, Luiza Barbosa and Jenna Agnone, members of the Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility, were named national winners for their submission, ELL Give Back Program.
Read MoreHigh school students talked about being sexually harassed and assaulted, and their struggles are not unusual. Eighty-seven percent of women said they had been sexually harassed in a study conducted by Making Caring Common.
Read MoreParents, high schools, and colleges are feeding an addiction of sorts — abetting an epidemic of perfectionism and expectation while promoting a “high” of status and prestige. Research-based initiatives at Making Caring Common provide resources for schools and families to reinforce “meaningful ethical and intellectual engagement” while rallying educators to imagine better systems for evaluating students in admission.
Read MoreWhat if admissions officers would look favorably on students who attended an economically integrated school, much as they do those who have had unusual travel experiences or outstanding extracurricular achievements? This new theory builds on Making Caring Common’s Turning The Tide report that outlines its partnership with colleges to de-emphasize applicants' resume padding and hyper-competitive achievement, and prioritize communal values and work taking care of others.
Read MoreMaking Caring Common intern Bene Webster proudly describes herself as a former “nut” — a quality that she always found helpful when dealing with some of the behavior problems in her third-grade classroom in New Orleans. “I found that giving my students more freedom and autonomy, not less, resolved a lot of what others perceived to be behavior problems. It is easy to forget that kids are human beings, and at the end of the day they want to be free and able to be themselves just as much as the rest of us.”
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