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Dominic Randolph heads an elite private school that serves privileged children of high-achieving parents, while David Levin is superintendent of New York’s KIPP charter schools, where the students are poor and parents generally have little education. But both principals believe that character is essential to their pupils’ future success, and have collaborated to implement comprehensive character education programs.
When it comes to friendship, do your students value quantity over quality? Are they indiscriminant in the sending and accepting of friend requests? If so, they’re clicking on the wrong links. Or maybe they’re just clicking too much and too often.
At the annual meeting for the Association for Psychological Science last month, researchers from the University of Michigan presented their findings that college students today are less empathetic than college students 30 years ago. The steepest decline in empathy occurred in the last nine years. Why might people be less empathetic than they used to be?
