Tag Archives: fight or flight

Mindfulness and the Low Income Brain Drain

Posted on May 3, 2017 by schooldog

Mindfulness and meditation emerge as one tool in schools’ slow grapple with the psychological and neurobiological consequences of poverty in student lives. Continue reading →

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History Lessons and Poor White Kids

Posted on November 10, 2016 by schooldog

This voyage into the world of the white underclass begins with a challenge to American myth. The colonies did not simply, as the school books tell, embrace the new European immigrants all on equal terms. Continue reading →

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