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Michele Borba Blog: Happy BD MLK! 7 Ways to Nurture Tolerance in Kids

Posted: January 18th, 2010 by Michele Borba


REALITY CHECK: Did you know that today’s American youth are displaying intolerant actions at alarming rates-and at younger ages? The FBI reports that most hate crimes are committed by youth younger than nineteen. The Associated Press announced  that 2009 saw most federal hate crime cases since 2001. The Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.tolerance.org) reports that [...]



Michele Borba: 6 Surprising Changes That May Help #ADHD Kids in School

Posted: August 4th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba, Ed.D.
REALITY CHECK  Reports say that Attention Deficit Disorder (or ADD) affects up to nine[ii] percent of school-age children, but even then the medical field fears that only half of those have been properly diagnosed. Parents currently spend[i] over one billion three hundred million each year on buying one of the three leading [...]



Michele Borba: Do Lefties Have the Upper Hand?

Posted: July 30th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba

I admit I’m glued to CSPAN these days.
But this week I tuned into an unexpected political revelation. I caught it the moment President Obama was signing a bill. It wasn’t what, but how he signed the law. He used that unmistakable hooked handwriting scrawl of a left-hander. Somehow I’d missed that asset in our president.
Through a [...]