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Scott Jaschik writes about our new report on ethical engagement and college admissions in Inside Higher Ed.
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“The test isn’t to see if you can get your kid into a high-status college. It’s a test of ethical character — and a lot of parents are failing that test.” Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd spoke with Jennifer Breheny Wallace about our new report on putting ethics and meaningful engagement at the center of the college admissions process. Read the full piece in The Washington Post.
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New Report Calls on Parents and High Schools to Put Ethical Character at the Center of College Admissions
“Turning the Tide II” explores the critical role of parents and high schools in supporting teens’ ethical development and dialing down achievement pressure. The report, published by the Making Caring Common project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, makes the case that an intense focus on academic achievement has squeezed out serious attention to ethical character in many high schools and families, especially in middle- and upper-income communities. With a narrow focus on high achievement and admission to selective colleges, parents in these communities often fail to help their teens develop the critical cognitive, social, and ethical capacities that are at the heart of both doing good and doing well in college and beyond. Many parents also fail to be ethical role models to their children by allowing a range of transgressions—from exaggerating achievements to outright cheating—in the admissions process.
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“Parents are trying to give their kids ‘everything’ but they’re not giving them what counts.” Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd spoke with Frank Bruni about our new report on putting ethics and meaningful engagement at the center of the college admissions process. Read the full piece in The New York Times.
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ABC’s Nightline interviewed Rick Weissbourd about the college admissions scandal.
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Jenny Anderson spoke with Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd about equity and the college admissions scandal: “The deck is so stacked against low-income kids and working class and middle class kids, and it’s getting more stacked. [Some wealthy] parents don’t seem to have any consciousness about equity.” Read the full piece in Quartz.
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The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board cites our work on college admissions in their editorial on the college admissions scandal. Read the full piece in the Los Angeles Times.
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Amy Joyce spoke with Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd and Brennan Barnard about the college admissions scandal. Read the full piece in The Washington Post.
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In this piece for On Parenting in The Washington Posts, Sarah Szczypinski speaks with Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd about parenting, privacy, and children: “Parents can’t be impulsive about [sharing information]. They really need to be mindful of what they share and why. I think there are a lot of traps, and it can be at risk of confusing our needs with our kids’ needs. It’s important to be clearheaded: ‘Is this really what my kid needs, or is this about me? And if it is about me, are there any risks for my child?’”
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Congratulations to the HGSE MCC Challenge finalists!
Making Caring Common, generously supported by the Dean’s Office, engages current HGSE students in building empathy, bridging differences, and reducing bullying, discrimination, and harassment in schools.
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Rick Weissbourd spoke with Jennifer Graham about the moral education of children: "What's going on in the big picture here is that schools are spending less time on ethical character, fewer people are involved in religious institutions, and parents are spending less time on ethical character. Too often, parents blame the school, the school blames the parents, and the schools and parents blame the lack of community institutions. We even have data that shows some parents think other parents are the problem. So the case we're trying to make is, everybody has to do more and do better and be more thoughtful about this. You can't wait for other people to do this.” Read more in Deseret News.
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In this piece in Quartzy, Sarah Todd speaks with Making Caring Common’s Rick Weissbourd about sex and relationships: “In terms of human flourishing, there’s nothing more important we can do to than help young people prepare to love.”
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard writes about love and college admissions.
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In this piece in The Conversation, Jordan Long cites Making Caring Common’s research on when (and if) parents talk to their kids about sex and relationships: “Although parents can play a powerful role in a child’s sexual socialization, a Harvard Graduate School of Education report found that roughly 50 per cent of parents express uneasiness when attempting to discuss sex with their children. More than 40 per cent of parents don’t discuss sex with their children until after they are sexually active.”
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard writes that parents need to manage their own emotions and be aware of the messages they deliver when they react to college admissions decisions.
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In this piece for The Journal of College Admissions, Making Caring Common’s Trisha Ross Anderson and Rick Weissbourd, MIT’s Stuart Schmill, and Google’s Susie Vaks DePianto write about their progress in turning the tide in college admissions.
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In this piece for Forbes, Making Caring Common’s Brennan Barnard offers his letter of hope and gratitude to college applicants.
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Read the January update from Making Caring Common and don't forget to sign up for our monthly newsletter to get updates straight to your inbox.
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