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Milena Batanova, Making Caring Common's Director of Research & Evaluation, shares with Where Parents Talk host Lianne Castelino what MCC's research reveals about the loneliness epidemic in the U.S. and its impact on young people's mental health and overall wellbeing.
Read MoreThe New York Times Opinion Columnist and author David Brooks attended a recent Making Caring Common convening and wrote about his experience and insights in “The Character-Building Toolkit.”
Read MoreMaking Caring Common’s research shows that when parents’ and schools’ day-to-day messaging stresses children’s achievement and happiness over caring, this hyperfocus not only makes children less likely to think of others and the collective, but also compromises both their achievement and happiness. Making Caring Common Director Richard Weissbourd shared how parents and educators can close this gap and better help young people find purpose and meaning in their lives.
Read MoreIs true change possible? And how can change in our lives lead to either disillusionment or flourishing? Making Caring Common’s Richard Weissbourd and other guests recently discussed the topic on the Harvard Thinking podcast, hosted by Samantha Laine Perfas.
Read MoreHow can we best support our children in sports? The TOC podcast dives deep into this question with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd (hint: the answer isn’t yelling at referees).
Read MoreHow—and why—should we raise children who care about the common good? the Purposeful Empathy podcast’s Anita Nowak discusses this core MCC topic with Rick Weissbourd.
Read MoreTimely reads from the MCC team for the week of January 30, 2023.
Read MoreNBC Los Angeles report on how LAUSD’s 3rd Street Elementary school is using our Caring Schools Network program to help kids care, connect, and feel a greater sense of belonging at school.
Read MoreLos Angeles’ KTLA reports from LAUSD’s Third Street Elementary School, which is piloting MCC’s Caring Schools Network program.
Read MoreWant your kids to value their community service? Ask them questions that get them reflecting about what they learned. Check out these suggestions from MCC's faculty director, Rick Weissbourd in HGSE’s Usable Knowledge.
Read MoreIn this piece for Forbes, Brennan Barnard urges families to dig deeper than acceptance rates in their college search process.
Read MoreWhy does it feel so hard to care right now? TIME’s Lily Rothman speaks with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd about “the harder forms of caring” and how race and class have informed people’s experiences of loneliness over the last two years.
Read MoreHow did the pandemic impact students’ admissions and college choice process and experiences? Melissa Ezarik spoke with MCC’s Rick Weissbourd for this piece in Inside Higher Ed.
Read MoreUnbound interviewed MCC’s Milena Batanova about the valuable “soft skill” of empathy in the workplace.
Says Batanova: To “truly empathize, to listen and be present and to think about improving others’ lives…that can go a long way in any profession, and there’s nothing simple or soft about it.”
Read MoreIn this piece for Best Colleges, Mark Drozdowski highlights MCC research and writes that demonstrating good character can give students an edge in college admissions—but it remains unclear just how significant that edge might be.
Read MoreIn the latest from Inside Higher Ed, Richard Weissbourd is quoted in an article about why current admissions and enrollment decision making and desires involve common-sense thinking on location, price and flexibility.
Read MoreOne needs simply to turn on the news to realize that we are a world divided, writes MCC’s Brennan Barnard in Forbes. But what if, instead of a battlefield, the world was a schoolhouse?
Read More“Parents need to ask themselves how much of their own hopes and needs are getting confused with what is best for their child—their own status concerns, their competitive feelings with other parents, their belief that the college their child attends is a clear and public reflection of their success as parents, their hopes that their child will live out their particular dreams or compensate for their shortcomings.”
Read more sound, sane advice for families as college admissions decisions start rolling in in this Forbes piece by Brennan Barnard.
Read MoreGratitude is about more than saying “thank you.” If we want to help kids truly develop gratitude, adults need to go a step further — they need to teach kids to notice (who or what we’re grateful for) and think (about why we’re grateful), on a regular basis.
Read more about Making Caring Common’s strategies for developing gratitude in children in this Usable Knowledge piece.
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