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Designers, Could Your Home Be Your Next Big Marketing Tool?
Any home deserving of the name has multiple responsibilities to fulfill: as a shelter from the…
Continue ReadingEvery Woman I Know Had a Teacher Like Blake Bailey
There is rage, yes, but also endless disappointment. Before I even got out of bed this morning,…
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My Year in Scholastic Indentured Servitude
I didn’t decide to go to college until I was a senior in high school. Neither…
Continue ReadingStudent Loan ‘Forgiveness’ Implies We Did Something Wrong
We didn’t, my friends. I am not one to wade into the choppy waters of renaming common…
Continue ReadingMy Daughter’s Math Homework Has Been Our Pandemic Lifeline
It turns out schoolwork is the pandemic parenting hack you never expected. There’s nothing quite like…
Continue ReadingColleges Are Hiring Influencers to Make Mask-Wearing a Trend
And many students aren’t buying these “performative” safety measures. In July, University of Missouri freshman Caleb Poorman…
Continue Reading‘Patriotic Education’ Is How White Supremacy Survives
No, Trump can’t rewrite school curriculums himself, but a thousand mini-Trumps on the nation’s school boards…
Continue ReadingDrinking in Pods, ‘Social Snitching,’ and More Covid Freshman Experiences
How do you make friends in your first weeks at college when you don’t know who…
Continue ReadingZooming Into Harvard Isn’t Worth the Debt, So I’m Deferring for a Year
Ill-informed planning and shameful pricing has exposed a hierarchy of priorities for U.S. colleges. Students aren’t…
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I’m a School Board Member Bringing Kids Back to Classrooms
We didn’t know what exactly to expect in June when the schools closed for the year.…
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How Will Textbooks Remember This Season of Discontent?
If LaGarrett King were to write a high-school U.S. history textbook, he’d create a unit on…
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