--- title: How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids description: How teachers can help the quiet kids, the real war we're facing and more. canonical: https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-11T16:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:47.504Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 11, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how teachers can make sure quiet kids don’t get left behind.**](http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/07/06/how-schools-can-help-notice-and-serve-the-quiet-kids/) By Elissa Nadworny at KQED’s MindShift **2\.** [**We’re in a war — between people who want to divide the world and people who don’t.**](http://www.slate.com/articles/news%5Fand%5Fpolitics/politics/2016/07/there%5Fis%5Fa%5Fwar%5Fover%5Frace%5Fin%5Famerica%5Fbut%5Fit%5Fs%5Fnot%5Fwhites%5Fvs%5Fblacks.html) By William Saletan in Slate **3\.** [**Beyond the moral cost, civilian casualties of war have enormous strategic consequences.**](https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/enduring-toll-civilian-harm) By Rachel Reid at the Open Society Foundations **4\.** [**The era of lethal police robots has arrived.**](http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/dallas-police-robot/490478/) By David A. Graham in the Atlantic **5\.** [**Marijuana might hold a weapon against Alzheimer’s disease.**](http://www.salk.edu/news-release/cannabinoids-remove-plaque-forming-alzheimers-proteins-from-brain-cells/) By the Salk Institute  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/"},"headline":"How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids","datePublished":"2016-07-11T16:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:47.504Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/","keywords":["Innovation","Afghanistan","Drones","Alzheimer's","Teachers","black lives matter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4400892/how-teachers-can-help-the-quiet-kids/","name":"How Teachers Can Help the Quiet Kids"}}]}] ```