The Last Normal School Year
Many parents have worried that the closure of schools would cause academic regression in our kids, and it has. But school is not just that…
Category: Education
Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects UNC Chapel Hill, Joins Ta-Nehisi Coates At Howard
After a weeks-long controversy surrounding her tenure offer with UNC Chapel Hill, Nikole Hannah-Jones will be joining Howard University.
Florida Critical Race Theory Amendment: Read It For Yourself
The State Board of Education has voted and the Florida Critical Race Theory amendment has became law, restricting it from public school instruction.
Things I Learned Teaching During a Global Pandemic
The big takeaway for me teaching this year has been that even in isolation, human connection is our greatest weapon in any sort of crisis
Explode the Canon: How to Fight a Better Canon War
Let’s explode the Canon and cultivate critical distance, opening up new vistas and leaving behind stale arguments.
What Happens When A Skill Becomes Obsolete?
What happens when a skill dies? The key thing to me is to note that skills don’t die suddenly. There is an inflection point that signals the coming end.
Lazy Man’s Load: Credentialing and Education That Never Fails
Many educational institutions build their programs directly on the back of industry credentialing organizations.
Career Day: Knocker Uppers, Buggy Whip Makers, and Modern Work Life
We owe it to the next generations to help expose them to all the career options life offers while retaining a sense of practicality
The First Day of School, Believing the Science, and Anecdotal Evidence
The first day of school ends the social experiment of one side of the road being business as usual while the schools across it where shuddered and forbidden.
They are Newton’s Laws of Motion
It seems like students should at least be told that others refer to them as Newton’s laws of motion even as they chose to refer to them differently.
Growing up in the System:
There are still too many people of my experience trying to apply their “the system” to today’s problems and today’s jobs.
Aesthetics Revisited: A Lutheran, Catholic School, and Brideshead
I invite you to be enthralled with Brideshead Revisited, which makes a television masterpiece of a literary masterpiece
Let’s Talk About Text
Ordinarily, handwriting is not on my top ten list of “Fun Stuff to Talk About.” but, something about this was different.
Re-reading (And Not Reading) James Joyce
I know every single one of you is wondering whether and in what ways I appreciate James Joyce’s work. So…In praise of (and in fear of) James Joyce’s oeuvre.
Guys, Guys: Inclusive Language Is Important, But Let’s Not Warp A Word’s Meaning
On Tuesday the 17th of November, Doctor Krystal Evans—it is not clear in what discipline she earned her doctorate, but from her Twitter bio it would appear to be a hard science—tweeted the following:...
But It’s Not Fair: Student Loans and the Growing Demand of Debt
Simply shifting the student loan burden to taxpayers doesn’t address the perverse incentives of a broken system of higher education.
Like It Or Not, Remote Learning Is Coming Back
Acceptance is the place to be when it comes to school closures. It’s ugly, sudden, disruptive and messy, but it’s coming.
The Student, The Teacher, and Zoom
We now have a chance to evaluate all the extraneous investments to design a much more effective and efficient educational institutions
Against Primary Schooling: Anecdotes, Questions, and Commentary
To dismantle the primary school system is not desirable, but it is necessary. What we have now is a triumph of the middle of the 20th Century…
How Colleges Can Actually Stay Open
This “abstinence only” model for college socialization is not only destined to fail, but also it ignores the mental and psychological strains
