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Making Caring Common first published Turning the Tide (TTT) almost seven years ago. Trisha Ross Anderson, MCC’s College Admissions Program Director, shares an update about how our college admissions work has grown since this groundbreaking report.
Read MoreIn this Psychology Today piece, clinical psychologist Jennifer Guttman cites our 2021 report on the state of caring in America and shares four tips for treating ourselves and others with more compassion.
Read MoreErica Pandey cites MCC’s report about loneliness in America in this Axios Finish Line piece highlighting statistics about loneliness in the United States.
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 MoreThe Journal’s editorial staff cites MCC’s report on loneliness in this piece that examines the science suggesting that lonely people are less likely to vote.
Read MoreLos Angeles’ KTLA reports from LAUSD’s Third Street Elementary School, which is piloting MCC’s Caring Schools Network program.
Read MoreThe Clayton Christiansen Institute’s Julia Freedland Fisher argues that schools miss the big picture when they don’t include relationship data in their data-gathering efforts. Read more in her piece in EdSurge.
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 MoreKids might feel that the world is spinning out of control after the Uvalde, Texas shooting, MCC’s Rick Weissbourd tells the Los Angeles Times. Parents can support them by helping them turn "passivity into activity."
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 MoreAndrew Bauld offers advice for how to nurture a caring school community — to confront biases, divisions, and challenging topics — in HGSE’s Usable Knowledge.
Read MoreMCC’s Brennan Barnard reflects on the thirty years he has spent as a college admissions advisor in Forbes, pointing out how even today, the admission landscape can dramatically change even in one year.
Read MoreLoving and being loved can be one of the most meaningful parts of life. So why don’t adults spend more time talking to teens and young adults about how to develop and maintain healthy romantic relationships?
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