Category Archives: Children/Teens/Young Adults

Are The Boy Scouts Knuckling Under?

Posted on 05/23/2013 by

I can always count on the anti-homosexual crowd to boost my numbers. Thanks, guys! You Christians really come out for the gays! My piece at TIME.com was the second-most emailed earlier this morning, I’m proud to report. But, perplexingly, I haven’t … Continue reading →

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What the Boy Scouts Can Learn From the Girl Scouts

Posted on 05/23/2013 by

Here’s my take on the Boy Scouts drama here, at TIME.com: After months of delay, Boys Scouts of America (BSA) is finally voting today to overturn its ban on “openly gay” scouts (though not scout leaders—those are still verboten.) The BSA has defended its … Continue reading →

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How To Reduce Sports-Related Violence: Make Teens the Referees

Posted on 05/08/2013 by

My TIME.com post today on how we can better foster responsibility in teens (and reduce violence at high school sports events): put the kids in charge. Here’s my case: It’s often said that team sports serve as a proxy for actual violence. … Continue reading →

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Race to Somewhere

Posted on 04/28/2013 by

An open letter to my students at Harvard: Some of you are upset with me for writing a piece at Cognoscenti in which I questioned the value of our punishing, sometimes brutalizing “race to the top” admissions process to elite … Continue reading →

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Empathy Gap

Posted on 04/26/2013 by

My family and Bangladesh go way back: I lived in Bangladesh for a year when I was in my early twenties. A decade later, in an odd twist of fate, my sister moved to Bangladesh, too, and stayed there with … Continue reading →

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Use Your Words

Posted on 04/10/2013 by

“Words are supposed to hurt. That’s considered a legitimate way of fighting things out. And what did it replace in the historical scene? It replaced actual violence. Words are supposed to be free so we CAN actually fight things out, … Continue reading →

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How to Survive an Attack

Posted on 04/06/2013 by

There’s something grimly understated about this article from the NYT on how to survive a mass homicide attack. Apparently, we now have a large enough sample size from these shootings to talk intelligently about predictors of survival: Research on mass … Continue reading →

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Can We Get Kids Off the College Admissions Hamster Wheel?

Posted on 04/03/2013 by

Here’s a piece I just posted at WBUR’s Cognoscenti. It’s a real proposal for an experiment that I think could “work” in the sense that no matter what the outcome, we would gain useful information with no real harm (or … Continue reading →

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What’s Really Scandalous About the School Testing Scandal

Posted on 04/02/2013 by

Sorry I’ve been off the grid for a while! Here’s my TIME.com post this morning on the real scandal behind the Atlanta public schools cheating scandal. If you care about what’s going wrong in our education of children, you might be … Continue reading →

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A Free Lunch

Posted on 03/14/2013 by

I’m getting a lot of inquiries from people at CNN and radio shows asking me to talk about  paying at-risk teenagers not to become pregnant. Mainly, people seem to think I’m totally nuts, so let me clarify a few key … Continue reading →

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