| Feb 26, 2019 | Economy / Business|HP SubfeaturedA good many of us aging baby boomers are having trouble relating to the “helicopter parents” of our modern age — those moms and pops constantly hovering over their kids, filling their schedules with enrichment activities of every sort, worrying nonstop about their...
| Sep 12, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Rights / DemocracyIn sixth grade, I liked a girl in my gym class. We weren’t friends, but sometimes I worked up the courage to shyly say hello to her. I thought she was pretty, but that wasn’t exactly it. It was something else. I had no words for my feelings so I ignored...
| Aug 29, 2018 | HP Subfeatured|Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyIt’s no secret that our country incarcerates people of color at much higher rates than white people. What might be less well known is that this can begin in the classroom. Across the country, schools routinely punish, suspend, and expel students of color at...
| Aug 22, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyAfter a school year marred by shootings, districts across the country have responded this year with calls for more “school resource officers” in classrooms. As a result, many students are returning to schools that feel more like prisons — and in fact form...
| Apr 11, 2018 | Rights / DemocracyTeachers across the United States are having a moment. Educators are building on the momentum from West Virginia, where striking teachers won a 5 percent pay raise for state employees. Now the protests have spread to Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and the nation’s...
