Editorial

The perils (and benefits) of social media peer pressure
Editorial The perils (and benefits) of social media peer pressure

Many of the parents and educators can picture in their mind some utopian times when the adults supervising children and teenagers (and taking care of their education) could claim to be familiar with the young ones’ friends, and by consequence to know to a great extent the ideas, concepts and habits

The educational power and purpose of boredom
Editorial The educational power and purpose of boredom

In the midst of summer holiday, (or any other holiday, by that matter), when children may find it challenging to occupy their free time, parents and educators face an everlasting dilemma: is boredom educationally beneficial or not? As it turns out, what we usually perceive as unoccupied leisure

Back to school anxiety – will it last forever?
Editorial Back to school anxiety – will it last forever?

Now that school is starting all over again (or it has already started, depending on each institution’s particular schedule), on track with the ineludible yearly cycle, some of the children and their parents may find themselves confronted with back-to-school anxiety. The phenomenon – that NPR found t

Emotional Intelligence – has education forgotten about it again?
Editorial Emotional Intelligence – has education forgotten about it again?

SEL, or Social Emotional Learning backs up over two decades of specific research and tries to implement organic, but pre-planned Emotional Intelligence training in schools. Such programs aim at improving the students’ Emotional Quota (EQ) rates, and at contributing to the development of better a

Homeschooling for success – to try or not to try?
Editorial Homeschooling for success – to try or not to try?

Considering how modern education managed to enroll by the start of the 21st century the majority of all children worldwide (following the 1909 moment), the idea of homeschooling children seems like a retrograde move at first glance. However, since homeschooling originated out of various

U.S. education: an overview of the top 7 harsh issues
Editorial U.S. education: an overview of the top 7 harsh issues

Identifying the persistent issues in a structure that permanently strives to improve itself may be a real challenge. The educational system has known many grafted solutions, and continuously found itself between the centralized or localized strategies and the open source innovations whose outlets

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