“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoeKidsAmericaSocialResultsDealsCommonStudyTeachingLessonsMathCoreSocial StudiesTeaching KidsCommon Core Author:Megyn Kelly
“Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.” WayUseKidsFunClassStudyMiddleTvsLazyMiddle ClassUpper Middle Class Author:Nick Kroll
“I was a big TV kid.When I was a kid, I would go home at 3:00 and watch TV straight through to the end of Letterman at 1:30 in the morning.I was obsessed with comics.And I would watch Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno and study them as if it was Tolstoy.” IfsEndsHomeBigsKidsWatchesMorningStudyTvsObsessedJerryLetterman Author:Judd Apatow
“I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."” KindKidsUsedStudyStudentsMomPleaseMy MomValedictorians Author:Carla Gugino
“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.” PeopleKnowsHumansDifferentMightHappensKidsKnowingStudySubjectsCollegeResearchSightPrisonQuittingExperimentsCopCommitteesApprovedRobbersStanfordKids PlayingCops And Robbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.” WantNeedsChildrenHelpingKidsStudyRhetoric Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.” YearsKindKidsStudyExtremesPriestsFrustratedSeminaryFranciscans Author:Tom Cruise
“In high school, I was one of the cofounders of New Kids on the Block my freshman year in high school. But I also started studying theatre in high school my freshman year as well. So throughout high school, I was actually doing both.” YearsWellsKidsSchoolStudyHigh SchoolTheatreBlockFreshmanFreshman YearFreshman Year In High School Author:Donnie Wahlberg