Education

Writing Wrongs

From prompts in 642 Things to Write About, a book distributed to seniors at Hudson High School in Hudson, Ohio. In September, after parents complained that the book asked students…

When the Raids Came

by Andrew Quilty,

The war’s toll on one Afghan family

Sweet Om Alabama

From emails sent to Alabama state representative Jeremy Gray regarding a bill to legalize the practice of yoga in K–12 schools, which was banned in 1993. I have only done…

From a speech delivered in September to the Boca Raton School Board, in Florida, by an elementary school teacher concerned about the behavior of parents during their children’s remote-learning classes.…

Higher Yearning

by Flannery O’Connor,

From a journal that Flannery O’Connor (1925–64) kept during her second year at Georgia State College for Women. The journal entries were published in Issue 94 of Image Journal. Regina…

The Working Classroom

by Malcolm Harris,

By Malcolm Harris, from Kids These Days, a book about millennials that was published this month by Little, Brown. Read More

Class Dismissed

by Alexandria Neason,

When a state divests from public education

School Survival Guide

by Russell Lynes,

During the depressed years of the Thirties a good many private schools went out of business. Others cut their faculty salaries back to levels which confirmed teachers in their suspicion…

Teachable Moment

From a conversation that took place in March in a high school classroom in Bryansk, Russia. Earlier that day, Maxim, a student, was arrested for spreading information about an unsanctioned…

At Last

by Olivier Kugler,

Over the River

by Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

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