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TMB Episode 34: Six Students with Inattention

In 1961, a now famous article was written in a journal called The Lancet. In the article, the author – a London-based pediatrician – wrote about six children with coughs. The purpose of the article was to help pediatricians-in-training understand the importance of appropriate diagnostic practices; after all, at that time in our history, a cough could have meant anything from allergies to tuberculosis.

In this podcast, Dr. Berney and Dr. Richard take a similar approach to a modern day concern – inattention in schools. As was the case with coughs in 1961, inattention today can be caused by many different things and it is imperative that parents, teachers, and mental health professionals thoroughly explore the cause of the inattention. We are often eager to jump from symptom to treatment without first understanding the diagnostic underpinning of the issues. It is only through understanding WHY the student is inattentive that we will come to the most appropriate intervention.

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Paedeia Episode 5: Sound Aspirations, Impossible Implementation

In Episode 3: History of School Reform, Dr. Berney and Dr. Richard reviewed how school reform has evolved over time. In that podcast, they discussed our current school reform mission and how it has shaped education as we know it today.

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Psychology Today: Students’ Emotional Fragility

Students are emotionally fragile.

Here is the most recent article from Dr. Peter Gray covering the phenomenon of heightened emotional fragility in college students.

There is no doubt that students are experiencing more pressure today than in the past. As you have heard on many of our podcasts and read in our columns, the climate of our current education system, from kindergarten through college, is fostering stress, emphasizing compliance, and restricting exploration. Students have been trained to believe that the only thing that is important is a high grade. The process of learning has changed.