Archive for the ‘ Private School ’ Category

Is Technology Just A Tool?

The technology we create for ourselves, ostensibly to make our lives easier/better/faster, seems always to impact more than just the job it was created for. I’m talking about wheels and looms, satellites and cotton gins, not Silly Putty and Flowbees. [ READ MORE ]

Tightly Wound Parental Units

The parents who will be driving their offspring to insanity as soon as the kids can spell S-A-T start in on the psychotic haranguing early[ READ MORE ]

Creating Amazing Learning Experiences

It didn’t make me cry like a dumb wussy girl, but I did think grateful thoughts, yet again, that I’ve been lucky enough to have had some in my life. [ READ MORE ]

For-Profit Success vs. Not-For-Profit Failure

I don’t want to agree with Michael Platt that for-profit schools succeed and not-for-profit schools are seemingly always in financial straits, but he makes a certain amount of sense[ READ MORE ]

Teachers Should Be Person of the Year

I agree with the anonymous high school librarian who writes the Not So Distant Future blog; teachers should be Time Magazine’s Person of the Year. Posted by Alexa Harrington (teacher)[ READ MORE ]

Hone Your Inner B.S. Detector

I think we all know how I feel about college rankings lists: unreliable. (That’s me being restrained and polite. Enjoy it now. It won’t last.)[ READ MORE ]

Factors to Consider When Choosing the Perfect College

The penultimate act before the ultimate goal is reached: choosing the perfect college[ READ MORE ]

Advice for the College Interview

Some practical advice for all prospective college students facing college admission interviews[ READ MORE ]

Equality In the Public School System (Or the Lack Thereof)

Two great reads from the Oxford University Press (if you’re an education nerd like me): Five Miles Away, A World Apart[link and italics] by James E. Ryan, and In Brown’s Wake[link, italics] by Martha Minow. [ READ MORE ]

I Live In A Van Down By Duke University (Re-Post)

Author’s Note: I’ve re-posted this article for your reading pleasure as I am on vacation. Duke University grad student Ken Ilgunas wrote a sublime piece in Salon.com about his own grand social experiment: He currently (until someone busts him after reading his article) lives in his van in a campus parking lot. Ilgunas went the [ READ MORE ]