In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard writes that parents need to manage their own emotions and be aware of the messages they deliver when they react to college admissions decisions.
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In this piece for The Journal of College Admissions, Making Caring Common’s Trisha Ross Anderson and Rick Weissbourd, MIT’s Stuart Schmill, and Google’s Susie Vaks DePianto write about their progress in turning the tide in college admissions.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard offers his letter of hope and gratitude to college applicants.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard offers more ways to improve college admissions in 2019.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard shares his six terms to stop using college admissions.
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In this piece for Education Week, Sarah D. Sparks highlights Making Caring Common’s research on sexual harassment and misogyny among young people.
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In this piece for Education Week, Catherine Gewertz highlights Making Caring Common’s work to rewrite the college admissions script to value the ways that students serve their families and their communities.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard suggests two resolutions for everyone involved in college admissions: be kind and communicate.
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In this piece for Business Insider, Steven John references Making Caring Common’s report The Children We Mean to Raise, in which we found that “approximately four out of five children value personal achievement and success more than caring for others.”
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard shares advice for talking about college admissions over the holidays.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard advises students who receive disappointing college news to adjust their priorities.
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In this piece for The Washington Post, Jeffrey J. Selingo references Making Caring Common’s Turning the Tide report and initiative, in which more than 2000 admissions officers “have endorsed a movement to prize character and ethics in making admissions decisions.”
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In this piece in HGSE’s Usable Knowledge by Grace Tatter, Rick Weissbourd says, “It’s so critical that kids are able to undertake this work of learning to love somebody else. They’re not going to be able to do it unless we get them on the road and are willing to engage in thoughtful conversations.”
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In this piece in The Washington Post by Amy Joyce, Rick Weissbourd says that parents need to teach children that generosity is something that requires sacrifice.
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In this piece in The New York Times by Lisa Damour, Rick Weissbourd explains that the first forays into sexual activity are often “overloaded with expectations as well as worries about performance.” Making Caring Common’s report The Talk is also cited.
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In this article in The Washington Post, Rick Weissbourd says, “Voting should be a fundamental expectation that parents have for their children. Make it clear that your family believes being an engaged citizen is a moral responsibility because other people’s lives — and the well-being of our community and country — depend on it.”
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In this article on the Harvard Graduate School of Education website, Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd says that he has found that men can sometimes tune out when terms like “empathy” and “listening” are used to talk about the importance of caring, but they can be more engaged by terms like “courage” and “respect.”
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In this article in The Atlantic, Richard Weissbourd says that "There's a disease in that so many people are focused on 10 to 20 highly selective colleges that aren’t any better than 100 other colleges,” If we don't crack this disease, this obsession, "we can't get rid of achievement pressure."
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As parents and caregivers, we must do better to prevent children and youth from harming or being harmed, and to help them become caring, humane people. We have tremendous power to shape their understanding of assault and consent, and to be part of the solution to this destructive epidemic. In this article in The Washington Post, MCC leaders Rick Weissbourd and Alison Cashin offer five guideposts to help parents begin these essential conversations.
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In this piece in The Wall Street Journal, Making Caring Common’s report The Talk is cited. Difficult conversations about sex and consent have become even more complex — but here’s how dad’s can persist.
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