A Call to Action

Public Libraries:  A Vital Space for Family Engagement , a report from the Public Library Association and the Harvard Family Research Project, is a call to action for libraries to learn about and reach for more effective family engagement.  Libraries, the...

Scarcity–part 3

Lack of money can cause tunnelingThis is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity:  Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs...

Scarcity–part 2

The proverbial ticking clock!This is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity:  Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs professor...

Scarcity

If you’ve had a conversation with me in the past month or so, you’ve probably heard me talking about a book I finally just finished called Scarcity:  Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard)...

Thirteen Reasons Why (or Why Not)

Flickr Creative Commons, Eli Christman I live in a bit of a popular culture bubble, and I’m often late to the game of hearing about what is hot.  Last week, one month after the Netflix series based on the teen book by Jay Asher Thirteen Reasons Why was released,...