Education

Parental Guidance Suggested

By Edith Pride,

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…

At Last

By Olivier Kugler,

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…

Over the River

By Richard Manning,

Returning home to Flint

Held Back

By Alexandria Neason,

Battling for the fate of a school district

Class Struggle

By Grace Irwin,

I n every city there is a district which is called “tough” — a district which decent people, afraid of insult or theft, shun in both daylight and darkness. It…

Om Economics

From a memorandum sent in February to the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, in Massachusetts, by the National Center for Law and Policy, a legal-defense organization. The letter, written on behalf…

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