The Big Topic on Campus: Racial ‘Microaggressions’
A student performed a monologue in March in which he describes how he was misidentified as the help at a cocktail party he attended in the play, “I, Too, Am Harvard,” in Cambridge, Mass. Credit; Gretchen Ertl for The New York Times By Tanzina Vega | Originally […]
The Science of ‘Paying It Forward’
Graphic; Olimpia Zagnoli By Milena Tsvetkova and Michael Macy | Originally Published at Gray Matter. The New York times. March 14, 2014 ONE morning in December of 2012, at the drive-through window of a Tim Hortons coffee shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a customer paid for her order […]
3-19-14 empathyeducates
empathyeducates: Liberals and Tea Party Find Common Ground with Common CoreBy Karen Wolfe | Originally Published at LA Progressive. March 19, 2014 Few if any political issues have brought together liberals and the tea party to the extent that the Common Core State Standards have. How can something be equally objectionable to political opposites? Tea partiers ideologically […]by empathy / 45min hid