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Fast Company
August 8, 2011
April Rabkin |
Cramming For College At Beijing's Second High An intimate look at a group of elite Beijing high-school students reveals how China's schooling system is one of the resurgent nation's greatest strengths - and biggest weaknesses.   |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2006
Ken Bird |
Student Information Systems >> How Do You Spell Parental Involvement? S-I-S Research shows parental involvement improves student achievement, and because with the advent of the Internet and the use of Student Information Systems, schools have never had an easier tool to offer parents. |
BusinessWeek
May 5, 2011
Daniel Golden |
China's Test Prep Juggernaut Test preparation company New Oriental Education is helping a rising generation of Chinese students to ace U.S. college entrance exams |
BusinessWeek
September 1, 2010
Dexter Roberts |
A Dearth of Work for China's College Grads China's new university graduates lack the skills companies need, and there are too many of them, which is keeping salaries low. |
Salon.com
September 15, 2000
John Buell & Etta Kralovec |
Time for a recall The authors of "The End of Homework" argue that after-school assignments disrupt family life and exacerbate inequality in the schools. |
Reason
December 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Thank Deng Xiaoping for Little Girls The tyrannical roots of China's international adoption program. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2001
Lisa Movius |
To be young, Chinese and Weiku China's dot-com boom went bust, but it gave birth to a way-cool generation of Web users who are creating their own cultural revolution... |
Salon.com
September 6, 2001
Damien Cave |
If a child is a killer, are the parents to blame? Psychologist and author James Garbarino says the responsibility for teen violence must be shared... |
BusinessWeek
October 11, 2004
Einhorn & Roberts |
Now College Grads Can't Find A Job A job shortage for people just out of college or graduate school is a worldwide problem. Until recently the exception, even graduates in China are now facing frustration when they graduate. |
Salon.com
August 30, 2000
Debra Ollivier |
Whose crisis is this, anyway? Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2000
Theresa Heim |
Cramming for kindergarten I tutor 3-year-olds to crush the competition. |
Registered Rep.
August 20, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
When Dream Schools Become a Nightmare Many parents will go to great lengths to send to their children to their dream schools, but it's not always the best financial decision. |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Jennifer Roback Morse |
Parents or Prisons For some people, prisons are a substitute for parents. This apparent overstatement is shorthand for two more precise points. |
Registered Rep.
February 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Helping Parents Deal with College Stress The number of parents who express concern about getting their kids into college is almost as many as those who worry about paying the tab. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2002
Mark Nixon |
How the Web Keeps Parents 'In the Know' As teachers and parents work together to assist students in their studies, the Web has emerged as a highly effective and informative communication tool to meet the needs of today's busy teachers and parents... |
Reason
April 2006
Lisa Snell |
The Agony of American Education How per-student funding can revolutionize public schools in the U.S. |
BusinessWeek
February 3, 2011
Daniel Golden |
The SAT Is to America as ____ Is to China The College Board wants permission to offer the SAT in China, opening up a huge market for the $600 million business. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2010
Donald Jay Korn |
Borrowing Trouble When conversations about college affordability take place, planners may be able to introduce some realities into the discussion. |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2008
Hara Estroff Marano |
Pitfalls of Perfectionism Perfectionism may be the ultimate self-defeating behavior. It turns people into slaves of success -- but keeps them focused on failure, dooming them to a lifetime of doubt and depression. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2011
Suzanne McGee |
Full-Nest Syndrome Even when a financial advisor is able and willing to work with clients on containing and managing requests for financial help from their boomerang children, they can end up squarely in the middle of one of the most perilous kinds of disagreements: family squabbles over money. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2008
Matt Villano |
Meet the Parents Notification tools can do more than alert the school community to an emergency. New systems are cultivating parental involvement by sending home daily reports on students' behavior, attendance, and performance. |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Amy Benfer |
A game called suicide Teacher and author Jane Katch talks about the value -- and necessity -- of violent play... |
Salon.com
September 7, 2000
Patricia Kean |
Hopping to Harvard Does how my kid jumps, skips and plays with scissors say anything about his academic future? |
ifeminists
December 7, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
The Women of China: Caught Between Old Ways and a New World China is scrambling to restore the 6,000-year history deliberately destroyed by Mao's 10-year Cultural Revolution. At the same moment, it strains to become modern and Western. Nothing expresses the contradiction between old and new as clearly as the status of women. |
Registered Rep.
April 10, 2012
Kevin McKinley |
Helping Clients Cut Off the Kids If you have clients stretched between supporting their older youngsters and saving for retirement, you can delicately help the parents nudge, shove, and kick the offspring out of the proverbial nest. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000
Jessica Portner |
Suicide Watch An ever-vigiliant school district discovers that a well-funded town effort can keep kids from killing themselves |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
Meg Robbins |
The failure of testing President Bush wants to "test every child, every year." But a growing movement of families and teachers insists this is a formula for mediocre schooling and stressed-out kids. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2005
Anne Field |
Poor Little Rich Kids With a horde of competitors pursuing the same market, and with statistics showing that the highly affluent trust financial advisors less than ever before, winning and retaining wealthy accounts requires delicacy, savvy and, most of all, smart marketing. |
Registered Rep.
September 19, 2014
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The College Illusion Are your clients, who could be paying as much as a quarter of a million dollars to send one child to college, getting their money's worth? |
Wired
August 2002
David Sheff |
Enter the Dragon China will soon be the biggest PC market in the world, and everyone wants a piece of it. One problem: A homegrown powerhouse called Legend. |
Salon.com
March 1, 2001
Jennifer Miller |
Dragonfly's demise Another progressive preschool bites the dust, leaving me and other parents livid and bereft... |
Salon.com
September 25, 2000
Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. |
Just say yes to Ritalin! Parents are being pressured by schools to medicate their kids -- or else. |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2007
Nando Pelusi |
Mommy's Favorite Parent-child interaction is a source of pain as well as the most wonderful, keenly felt love and devotion. We may dream about unconditional love, but parental ambivalence is the more likely fact of life. |
ifeminists
April 21, 2004
Tony Zizza |
"Discipline, No Television, No Kidding" Today, children have a better relationship with their "own" television than with their parents and peers. |
Fast Company
January 2005
Jena McGregor |
Fast Talk: China Rising We talked to five of the best and brightest recent Chinese MBA grads -- whose careers will be followed in a 20-year study by Katzenbach Partners -- about China's future and their own hopes and dreams. |
Salon.com
July 18, 2001
Lawrence H. Diller |
Defusing the explosive child Prescribing drugs, not discipline, will only escalate conflict, lead to more difficult kids and weaken our already-lax culture of parenting. |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2003
Bessell et al. |
Engaging Families With Technology This article provides hands-on strategies for researchers and educators alike to implement with families from diverse cultural backgrounds, including the culture of poverty, to increase parental involvement in children's formal schooling. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Frederik Balfour |
Educating China's "Little Emperors" There's a big market for products that help China's coddled kids get ahead |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2009
Donald Jay Korn |
College Panic Many of your clients with teenage children may be feeling the college panic about now. They are looking at diminished net worths and an uncertain job market and economy |
Fast Company
Evie Nagy |
Tiger Moms, Take Note: How Science Can Make You A Better Parent Fast Company spoke with New York University sociologist Dalton Conley about the principles in his new book on parentology, the importance of improvisation, and what parents can do to learn how to not freak out. |
Registered Rep.
March 19, 2012
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
The Risks of Independence When parents realize that they haven't saved nearly enough money for college, some of them start wondering how their college-bound teenagers could qualify as independent students. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Catherine Davis |
Money talks In wealthy school districts, it drowns out the sound of the teachers. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2000
Jonah Greenberg |
Linux in China: Not ready for prime time Why should the masses bother with free software when stealing from Microsoft is practically patriotic? |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2005
Kumagai & Hood |
China's Tech Revolution How technology is driving the country's economic boom, and what that means for the world. |
Investment Advisor
October 2008
Olivia Mellan |
Long-Term Losses How can you cut your losses when they keep going on and on? |
Investment Advisor
May 2010
Lewis Schiff |
The Affluentialist: Raising Responsible Children Advisors to wealthy families can offer sensitivity and guidance. |
Wired
April 2006
Michael Erard |
The Mandarin Offensive Inside Beijing's global campaign to make Chinese the number one language in the world. |
Registered Rep.
June 18, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
How to Handle Overblown College Fears It's only natural that your clients dread the approach of this milestone, but as they prepare for it, you can help minimize their stress level. |
The Family Room
Johann Christoph Arnold |
In Praise of Black Sheep There's a black sheep in every flock, and there are few of us who don't know one, or didn't know one as a child. But no matter how natural the phenomenon, being a misfit is never easy... |
ifeminists
February 9, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
On Handcuffed and Felonious Children No one -- not the police, not the government, no school official -- has the right to brutalize a child for using crayons. And the people who reasonably supported zero tolerance as a way to make schools safer never envisioned a police state in which 6-year-olds are handcuffed. |
