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An overlooked cure for loneliness

Science tells us the solution may lie in what we do for others, not ourselves.

What if you could provide young children who need help reading with a free tutor? That’s what the city of Tempe did with its AARP Foundation Experience Corps partnership. Nearly 90 elementary school students got much-needed support this year thanks to the program. Bev Rogers is an Experience Corps volunteer. "And so we work with first, second- and third-grade children," she

Turning the page to confident reading Volunteers needed to help Gresham, Portland elementary students learn to read When Gresham's Jessie Wheeler first started volunteering with a program dedicated to helping kids become better readers, one first grader she was paired with was shy and unconfident. The little girl didn't like making eye contact and read so quietly that Wheeler could barely hear her. "Finally she looked at me and said, 'Reading is hard,'" Wheeler remembered. But the pair kept working at it every week, with fun games and exercises to build the girl's confidence. No...

A year ago, I wrote “The Next Pandemic: Mental Health” for National Mental Health Month, published in May 2020 in EdSurge. We were two months into the pandemic in America and already early signs of a mental health crisis were emerging from isolation and trauma. It is now time to update this piece for 2021. Because the reality is that we are not only experiencing a mental health pandemic; we now have a three-headed learning crisis consisting of mental health, empathy and creativity. Our children are growing in precisely the opposite direction. They are less mentally healthy, less emp...