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Sometimes, when we slow down enough to really check in with ourselves and see the situation from a wider perspective, greater clarity has a way of finding us.

Higher education has an incentive problem: As universities compete for students, the pressure to accommodate and retain them can come into tension with academic standards.

If someone disappoints you in a romantic relationship or a friendship, it might be because the expectations you set for them are too low

Back in 2022 college swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th place in the 200-yard freestyle with Lia Thomas during the Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. While 5th place is a remarkable achievement at this level of competition, it would not have made the news except for the fact that Thomas is a transgender woman and…

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else … may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.” “I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for children,” he told Colbert….

“Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” “Poetry can break open locked chambers of possibility, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire,” Adrienne Rich wrote in contemplating what poetry does. “Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock,” Denise Levertov asserted in her piercing statement…

Personal Perspective: Today’s adults may resist AI therapy. But children raised with AI will have no such resistance to something they grew up with.

When fans use AI to write fanfiction, other fans feel betrayed — and writers lose the benefits of imaginary play, expressive writing, and invaluable practice.

Parents are doing much more than just buying school supplies. They’re carrying the emotional weight of wanting their children to feel like they belong.