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A Reconsideration of Snow Days
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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November 2023

The Backpack
Or, How to Teach Boys, And How Not To.

May 2023

Editors: Publish School Shooting Photos
It's been 25 years since Columbine. Nothing has changed and the crisis is worsening. You alone can change the conversation.
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February 2023

Robots Do it Better?
ChatGPT is a distraction. Teaching writing the old-fashioned way will save America from itself.
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January 2023

Mind the Gaps
Girls’ success in education over the past 50 years has not come at the expense of boys
School Is Boring Again, Hallelujah
The change we were promised never came.

September 2022

Public Schools Won't Save Us
Panic about declining enrollments miss the point of school
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March 2022

Instagram is a Cigarette
"The Unbearable Bleakness of American Schooling" is wrong about what's wrong
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February 2022

Is Teaching Novels Even Worth It?
Book bans are dumb, but the indignation they evoke is misguided.
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December 2021

Bad Kids
Claims of school unrest are overblown and permit adults to dodge responsibility
The Mistake at Oxford High School
Who's to blame when a kid shoots up a school?

November 2021

The Gifted & Talented and the Rest of You
A college-or-nothing bias blinds us to students' other options
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