How John Henryism Affects Black Americans

This article originally appeared on 12.07.15Fifth-grade teacher Emily E. Smith is not your ordinary teacher. She founded The Hive Society — a classroom that's all about inspiring children to learn more about their world ... and themselves — by interacting with literature and current events. Students watch TED talks, read Rolling Stone, and analyze infographics. She even has a long-distance running club to encourage students to take care of their minds and bodies.Smith is such an awesome teacher, in fact, that she recently received the 2015 Donald H. Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.

When I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1990, I was a patient on an acute unit in a New York City hospital following my second suicide attempt. The plan was to transfer me to a psychiatric hospital in a suburb of the city that had a long-term unit designed specifically for patients with BPD. This unit was radical in that the treatment modality it used was a relatively new therapy called dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT.

The emergence of ChatGPT in education forces us to think more carefully about student motivation. AI in education will turn standard educational tasks into busywork. The purpose of education may come to be seen as furthering human meaning. The student experience has always involved a combination of work and play....

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Every new decision you make, big or small, adds to the cognitive load on your brain. The more we delay a decision, the less likely we are to ever make it. One must work on resilience, integrity, and self-awareness to become a better decision-maker. Many people come to therapy when...