November 12, 2025
Stories are etched into the very structure of our brains, coded so deeply that the impulse for storytelling survives and even surges after the most devastating […]
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October 15, 2025
Space is limited to 100 attendees. REGISTRATION REQUIRED! In Dealing with Feeling: Use Your Emotions to Create the Life You Want, Marc Brackett, Ph.D. (FAN ’19), […]
October 13, 2025
We all spend an absurd amount of energy trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts, we often fail. But what […]
October 13, 2025
Everything we do today is recorded as data that’s sold to the highest bidder. Plugging our personal data into impersonal algorithms has made government agencies more […]
September 22, 2025
Jeff Selingo on Rethinking the College Admissions Journey Join us for an evening with Family Action Network and Jeff Selingo, author of Dream School: Finding the […]
September 10, 2025
How much information is forgotten almost immediately after it is taught? How many students graduate from high school unprepared for careers where lifelong learning is essential […]
September 3, 2025
Most people on Earth today live in a country where birth rates already are too low to stabilize the population: fewer than two children for every […]
September 3, 2025
Attending college has long been a rite of passage for millions of teens and a bedrock of the American dream. But that well-worn path has lately […]
May 9, 2025
If all children could just get an education, the logic goes, they would have the same opportunities later in life. But this historical tour de force […]
May 9, 2025
Have you ever heard someone say, “I’m trying to make it work,” and thought, “That sounds like a great idea”? Probably not. Because the thing about […]
May 5, 2025
In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig, Ph.D., moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there […]
