I’ve got a new post on the Penguin Random House reading site ”Brightly” that shares a number of tips for parents to get their kids ready for the academic school year.  Some of the tips include:  talking about goals, fears, hopes for the coming school year, watching movies on school themes as a jumping off...Read More

I read an online article today from Benzinga, a financial media company that empowers its readers with daily actionable market analysis and commentary.  It reported on a new ADHD drug that the FDA had just approved, called Cotempla XR-OTD, a methylphenidate extended release orally-disintegrating tablet for treating ADHD in kids aged 6-17.  According to BMO...Read More

A new study of Scottish children published in the JAMA Pediatrics this week, suggests that the 1.0% of subjects (N= 7413) that were being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder had poorer outcomes on a wide range of measures compared with others in the study (N=766,244). The outcomes included: poor academic attainment, unauthorized absence from...Read More

I have a new article on the site MiddleWeb, which focuses on the importance of understanding recent brain research and how it can inform the creation of ”brain friendly” practices for young adolescents.  I was a junior high school teacher, a professor of courses in childhood and adolescent development, and a consultant to middle schools,...Read More

This is a blog post that appeared on ASCD’s InService blog, April 19, 2017.  It talks about an article I wrote for the April, 2017 issue of Educational Leadership entitled Neurodiversity:  The Future of Special Education? ”I was a special education teacher for several years back in the 1970s and 1980s.  Although I’d been trained at...Read More