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Agents for Change Feb 06

How this Thai educational movement empowers rural students

By Fred de Sam Lazaro

Education Oct 18

Opinion: How technology is teaching kids to care about the world and each other

To be a better teacher of the meaning of empathy, it helps to use the same tools of technology that young people are using.

By Rusul Alrubail

Nation Aug 13

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Next time you want to rage, try this act of radical imagination

"If you’ve ever had a moment of road rage, or acted impulsively to fend off a pickpocket or bully, you know the feeling," says author Lauren Groff: " You feel as though you could breathe fire." But what if we…

Arts Dec 08

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It can be really uncomfortable to talk about abortion. Here’s why we should

When you write a novel about abortion, says author Brit Bennett, you will have a lot of conversations with strangers about abortion. It’s made her realize how rarely we talk about it as a human experience. What if we approached…

By Brit Bennett

World Jul 13

Participants in Narrative 4, a program aimed at encouraging empathy, congregated at a summit in Limerick, Ireland, in June. Photo by Larisa Epatko/PBS NewsHour
The barrier-breaking power of learning someone else’s story

Narrative 4 formed out of the belief that learning each other’s stories and retelling them in the first person is a powerful way to gain understanding.

By Larisa Epatko

Aug 04

How feeling respected transforms a student’s relationship to school

By Sarah D. Sparks, Education Week

A Stanford University study finds that a one-time intervention to help teachers and students empathize with one another halved the number of suspensions at five California middle schools, and helped build bonds between disengaged students and their schools.

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In School, Babies Teach Older Children to Consider Feelings and Needs of Others

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