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Articles by Kathryn Scheinberg Meyer
The Title of this Crisis is Not Student Aggression
When adults label student aggression as the “most pressing issue” in education, it’s like diagnosing the fever while ignoring the disease. Chaotic classrooms and rising disruptions are real issues, but treating these symptoms as the underlying crisis guarantees the wrong prescription. From that distorted diagnosis, we see dysregulated children. But adjust the focus, and a different picture emerges: schools stretched beyond capacity, stripped of support, and shaped by decades of structural failures.
Keep little children in the classroom
CT State Department of Education The chart shows the reasons for out-of-school suspensions for students in preschool through Grade 2. As shocking as it sounds, children as young as pre-school and kindergarten can be and are suspended from school each year, and in fairly sizable numbers.
OP-ED | Keep Young Children In The Classroom
(Pikul Noorod via Shutterstock) KATHRYN SCHEINBERG MEYER, ROBYN PORTER & SARAH EAGAN After the past year we have all endured, it has become all the more critical that the children of 2021 have access to as much time in the classroom as possible. Young children, in particular, are in desperate need of the consistent structure, as well as the social-emotional skills that quality preschool and early elementary grades can impart.
Don't leave Bridgeport children behind
Rosa is doing her best to support her fifth-grade son Matteo during distance learning, with only an unreliable prepaid smart phone. Matteo has ADHD, which makes it even more challenging for him to focus. And Rosa has not received any support in accessing the complicated tech platforms necessary to help Matteo. Instead, Rosa picks up paper packets every two weeks —packets that are in English, making it incredibly difficult for her to support his instruction.
Don't Get Mad, Get Funny
More Than a Hug: How Caregiver Peers Can Support Each Other Friends arrive with extra meals or share a coffee, meeting them for a stolen hour, somewhere close to home in case of another emergency. You part with a hug and the friend offers words of encouragement. “Hang in there.” You hope you can. The next long nights and days of managing caregiving on top of the rest of life’s responsibilities go by in a blur. You are hanging on, but barely.
The Next Generation of Environmental Scientists are Data Scientists
The first NCEAS Data Science Fellow cohort, from left to right: Steven Chong, Stephanie Freund, Dominic Mullen, Mitchell Maier, Rachel Carlson, Emily O'Dean, and Irene Steves. These days, the “data problem” for environmental scientists is less about having enough of it and more about figuring out what to do with all of it – and to do it efficiently.
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