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  • Why It’s Time to Stop Mocking Sex Education that Teaches ‘Just Say No’

    Why It’s Time to Stop Mocking Sex Education that Teaches ‘Just Say No’0

    Sometime in the not too distant past a high school girl posted the following plea on a Viacom platform called A Thin Line, whose purpose was to get teenagers to share their digital dramas: ok this one guy my so called best friend keeps pressuring me to send him a nude picture when ever i can.

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  • Why It’s Time for a Different Teachers’ Union

    Why It’s Time for a Different Teachers’ Union0

    We need a radically different teachers’ union. The current model of a teachers’ union doesn’t fit the future educational landscape. Basically, the current model began with the industrial “labor and management are adversaries” model, giving laborers a collective voice in the face of the perpetual push to maximize profits. But schools and school systems aren’t

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  • Why It’s Still Important to Memorize

    Why It’s Still Important to Memorize0

    • September 29, 2015

    There was only one poem I was required to memorize in all my years of schooling – Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.    Like most students today, I had an education in which memorization was not emphasized. My understanding is that it is even worse now. Today, the word “memorization” is

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  • Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens

    Why It’s So Hard to Get Kids Off Their Screens1

    “How many of you have closed your email and then immediately reopened it because you might have just gotten an email?” Laughter rippled through the audience — including me — as we listened to Emily Cherkin give a talk at The Brearley School in Manhattan about tech and kids and us: parents, kids, educators, email

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  • Why it’s so Easy to Relate to Pontius Pilate

    Why it’s so Easy to Relate to Pontius Pilate0

    Who would sympathize with the Roman official who had Jesus crucified? Even among many who don’t consider themselves Christian, Pontius Pilate is a cultural symbol of an abusive, authoritarian power. But there are a few movies, such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, that present him as an almost sympathetic figure. That’s not

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  • Why It’s Important to Have Heroes

    Why It’s Important to Have Heroes0

    Heroes. Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines a hero as “a man admired for his achievements and noble qualities.” That “man” doesn’t fit the zeitgeist these days, so I looked up “heroine,” who is “a woman admired and emulated for her achievements and qualities.” Because I prefer the latter definition for my purposes here, I

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