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Are you watching kids scroll through life, with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney...

The start of a new year is a great time to think about strategies to up our parenting game, strengthening relationships with our...

FROM PARADE MAGAZINE: As the coronavirus pandemic continues, many people are finding themselves wondering how to keep kids busy and...

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. At the start of class, Logan Ridenour reminded the high school juniors of the ground rules for discussing...

BY YOREE KOH, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. ‘Freakonomics’ co-author Steven Levitt and other reformers are pushing for more equitable...

BY Nina Schwalbe, THE ATLANTIC. Keeping kids out of the classroom will make recovering from the pandemic harder in the long term, while...

Auto-grading software often marks answers incorrect when they are right, giving teachers and families more remote-school headaches By...

By: Amy Adolfo Signore, PhD, MPH and Emily Wakefield, PsyD, Connecticut Childrens Hospital. This year has been difficult to say the...

By Meghan Holohan, The Today Show. Experts say there are many ways parents can create new holiday traditions for their kids. Like...

By Haben Kelati, The Washington Post. If you have time to spare during the holiday breaks, KidsPost has just the thing to keep you busy:...

Check out the latest issue of the LEF Report! This edition's articles include: - Winter Is Coming, How to Deal with the Impending Stress...

BY Tom Vander Ark, FORBES. The rapid global shift to hybrid and remote learning—with lots of versions and variability—provoked renewed...

By: KRISTINA RIZGA, The Atlantic. Judith Harper on getting students to take risks—in literature class and in life. Most of my students...

BY KRISTINA RIZGA, THE ATLANTIC. Tracy Murray on helping kids develop emotional and social skills. racy Murray has witnessed a lot of...

From: Rural Schools Collaborative. New Milford High School is one of the many Connecticut schools committed to sourcing local food for...

By Melinda Wenner Moyer, NYTimes. With the election just a few days away, I have transformed into an absolute and terrible mess of a...

HOW IT WORKS: Each student assumes the role of a UN delegate. After researching the political, economic, and diplomatic realities and...

Join CFPA on Tuesday, November 10th from 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. via Zoom for CT Forest and Park Associations’s 125th Annual Meeting. REGISTER...

Nov. 2, 3, 4, and 5, 2020. 4:30 - 6 p.m. EST. This online series will help youth learn how to keep themselves safe as well as teach them...

BY Aaron Milstone, M.D., M.H.S., Johns Hopkins Medicine. Candy, cute costumes and family fun: It’s Halloween! “Kids need something to...