Jessica Lahey

Jessica Lahey explains how overprotective parenting can hurt a child's ability to grow through failure. 

Most of us these days don’t bother with writing letters—instead we send updates on social media, or write to each other in short texts. How are Facebook and Twitter affecting our writ...

It's good for the kids!

All this week, we’ve been talking about how students are learning today, both in and out of the classroom. Our conversations have looked at cell phones as educational tools, and at wh...