Contributors’ Blog

How Mentoring Can Shift from “Beating the Odds” to Changing the Odds

By Jean Rhodes In an important new Annual Review of…

Curbing the impact of negative student-adult relationships: A conversation with Mike Garringer

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By Julia Freeland Fisher, Reprinted from the Christensen…

Mentoring expert, Dr. Sam McQuillin, explains why school closings affect more than learning

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Experts’ Corner: Mentoring in the era of COVID-19 From the…

Mentoring in the era of COVID-19: Nine experts in the field weigh in

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By Justin Preston and Monica Arkin Featuring Dr. Tim…

It’s election season: Should mentors talk politics with their mentees?

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Linus: "There are three things I have learned never to discuss…

The multitude and magnitude of coronavirus stressors on children

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The perfect storm of insecurities and isolation creates…

Celebrating Fatherhood and Encouraging Mentorship with “My Brother’s Keeper”

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Ed. note: This was cross-posted several years ago on the U.S.…

How mentors and mentoring programs can support mentees’ ethnic/racial identity

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By Bernadette Sánchez & Aerika Brittian Loyd  In…

Mentoring in Trump’s America

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Update: We wrote this post 3 years ago, soon after Trump became…
Mentoring. Youth mentoring.

What Poverty Does to the Young Brain

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BY MADELINE OSTRANDER For a growing child, deprivation and stress…

Methods Corner: What is an effect size?

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by Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Ph.D. Most studies focus on "statistical…