My local school district, the Ichabod Crane Central School District in New York’s Hudson Valley, recently held a vote on a capital improvement project
Category: Education
St. Louis City vs. County Schools: Lessons in inequality [and life]
As a current high school student in St. Louis , I am often asked which high school I attend, and I am quite proud
While Rome burns, the ACLU rebuilds
The Constitution is important. Full stop. It does many things, chief among them being defining and protecting the rights of people in the United
Educated: A painful, honest memoir of family vs. self
A simple description of Tara Westover’s “Educated” would be that is a memoir of a childhood and young adult years in a fundamentalist Mormon
“Xenophobic, anti-Islam, anti-Semitic racist.” Who, me?
When you’re running for a school board position in suburban St. Louis and tweet out memes about banning Islam in America, what could possibly
Time for students to patronize adults; not the other way around
So many adults think that it is so cute, even enlightening, when a student such as Emma Gonzalez at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
In defense of reading, and of not reading
Is it possible to swill a dozen Diet Cokes and read on the same day? It is. But it’s also possible to down the
What My B.A. Didn’t Teach Me, But I Learned Anyway
I just graduated, but as I’ve been reflecting on how it has shaped me, I realized my most important lessons came outside the classroom.
Is school worth it after 8th grade?
One of the enjoyable things about working with middle school students is seeing how creative they can be and how skilled many are at
School vouchers: The baby versus the bathwater
You might be surprised to know that Elizabeth Warren has written in favor of school vouchers. Granted, that was from a book that she