Dispatches from India: Learning from my Students

Carly Maga
Us, the girls, and their housemothers on our first day.

Hello Our Kidders! It’s Carly once more, alive and online from India. My time in this mystifying country is coming to an end – it has been 40 long days of heat, noise, and experiences to fill three notebooks. I’m sure there’s another to be filled with the lessons and perspectives I’ve gained from participating [...]

The Dangers of Fessing Up to Facebook

Carly Maga
Teens have to be careful about what they post on Facebook

With over 400 million active users around the world, Facebook is a phenomenon that has revolutionized almost every aspect of our modern lives – the way we interact with others (both online and in-person), the vocabulary we use, how businesses market themselves, the list can go on and on and on. But perhaps the biggest impact it has had on our social behaviour is how we present ourselves to the online community, and how much we are now willing to reveal to the faceless virtual world.

Sexting Teens Put Their Futures At Risk

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Author Gordon Hay of Venture Academy for Troubled Teens explores the issue of sexting and teens.

Private School Engineering Class for Girls

Travis Allison
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A Washington area private school aims to interest young women in engineering and sciences by having them build things and break them. This morning’s Washington Post has a great article on the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland (all-girls, grades 3-12).  At first glance it appears that the school focuses on the arts and athletics but [...]

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