A Mystery, Wrapped In A Simple Kitchen Canister

Brave the hordes of parent-shamers and the thorny discussion of "whiteness" in America, and meet an 18-year-old filling seemingly every role at his struggling high school.

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A Humble Memento Of Endurance For a Jewish family fleeing genocide, a tin canister held hope She'd always known it as the place they kept teabags, but her parents had brought it with them as they fled first the Nazis and then the Soviets, finally settling in New York City. They'd paid a jeweler to hide a secret inside. Did he actually do it? 'It was an amazing moment' Everyone Knows Best A gorilla's death, followed by a tidal wave of parent-shaming No one knew what the Cincinnati Zoo great ape Harambe would do when a toddler fell into his habitat. When that incident ended in tragedy, a more predictable behavior followed: humans engaging in a judgmental firestorm online. Writer Barbara J. King thinks we're missing the point. Cutting through the mob mentality Nature? Nurture? Neither? Child prodigies don't exist and never did, says this author Masters of their crafts? To be sure. Hard workers? Clearly. Naturally gifted? Not so fast. Anders Ericcson says the secrets for helping kids develop superior skills are motivation, great coaching and a ton of hard work Learn what really made Mozart great Can You See The Invisible? 'White identity' may be a key to this election, but it's really hard to talk about. On NPR's inaugural Code Switch podcast, Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji discuss what it means to be white in America today, and talk with two college professors about how they start the conversation with their mostly white students. "One of the assumptions that students might come in with is that 'race is what other people have,' " one says. Fighting through an uncomfortable subject 'He's A Second Principal' In a poverty-ridden school, both kids and adults count on this teen to lead Robert Gordon, 18, spearheads fundraising, plans the senior class trip, helps students with serious personal problems. He knows every student and faculty member and how to get a hold of them, and intervenes in their disputes. Soon, he'll also graduate. Success in South Carolina's 'Corridor of Shame'

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