EducationIt's college decision season: Take the leap, get the rollerbladesViktoria Shulevich emigrated from Moscow to New York when she was 11, then graduated from a tiny high school in Brooklyn. When she visited and fell in love with Boston...Apr 19, 2024The MCAS debate deserves better than our polarized politics Whether or not Massachusetts students should be required to earn a passing score on MCAS to earn a high school diploma is a complicated issue, writes Jack Schneider, a professor...Mar 18, 2024Higher ed got it wrong — the SAT still mattersA recently released Dartmouth report calls for reinstating standardized test scores as an admissions criterion. Knee-jerk critics of the SAT and ACT may not read it, writes Rich Barlow. They...Feb 15, 2024Why I'm teaching Taylor Swift at HarvardHer songs speak to my privilege, to my insecurities, to my wish for attention, to my hopes that everybody will love me for who I am, writes Stephanie Burt, a...Jan 22, 2024Behind the prison walls, I heard these women's storiesAdam Stumacher recognized the metal detectors and walkie-talkies inside the prison from his years teaching in schools that mostly serve low-income students of color. This is what the school-to-prison pipeline...Jan 11, 2024AdvertisementClaudine Gay deserved better than this. So did HarvardWhether Claudine Gay should have remained as the university's president or resigned is not the issue, write Harvard professors Alison Frank Johnson and Stephen M. Walt. How the decision was...Jan 5, 2024There’s no roadmap for being an adult with a disability. So I’m making my ownI wanted to live alone, go to college and find a girlfriend, writes Samuel Habib. 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She's created an Instagram account, blackgirlsrow, to encourage other young women of...Oct 20, 2023Racial bullying in schools is on the rise — including here in Mass.Schools can prevent racial bullying and impose meaningful consequences when it occurs, write Alexis Rickmers and Oren Sellstrom.Oct 19, 2023It's time to end religious exemptions for vaccinations in Mass.Proposed legislation in Mass. would eliminate exemptions from vaccination for students on religious grounds. No major religion prohibits vaccination, writes Rich Barlow, and these exemptions risk the health of some...Oct 16, 2023'Language is blood; language is family’ — even if I’m losing my SpanishI know my Spanish grammar is in tatters and my fluency is slipping by the day, writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. Yet I remain fiercely Latinx. Sep 29, 2023New laws threaten educators who teach history. 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I didn't have to spend those formative four years...Sep 21, 2023A letter, a flag, a Spider Man keychain: the relics first-year college students carry from homeIn a small seminar about the lived experience of mental illness, psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport asks her students -- all in their first year -- to share one object they've brought...Sep 13, 2023The biggest threat to our students is gun violenceThe issue of gun violence is not theoretical for us, write educators Sydney Chaffee and TK Nagayoshi. It has become an unavoidable part of our work with children, diverting our...Aug 23, 2023I’m almost always the first Asian American teacher my students have had. That’s a problemStudents of color benefit from having teachers who share their racial or ethnic identification, writes May Hara. But increasing teacher diversity is an especially urgent issue for Asian Americans, the...Aug 22, 2023Don’t get stuck in a vortex of doom. 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It's college decision season: Take the leap, get the rollerbladesViktoria Shulevich emigrated from Moscow to New York when she was 11, then graduated from a tiny high school in Brooklyn. When she visited and fell in love with Boston...Apr 19, 2024
The MCAS debate deserves better than our polarized politics Whether or not Massachusetts students should be required to earn a passing score on MCAS to earn a high school diploma is a complicated issue, writes Jack Schneider, a professor...Mar 18, 2024
Higher ed got it wrong — the SAT still mattersA recently released Dartmouth report calls for reinstating standardized test scores as an admissions criterion. Knee-jerk critics of the SAT and ACT may not read it, writes Rich Barlow. They...Feb 15, 2024
Why I'm teaching Taylor Swift at HarvardHer songs speak to my privilege, to my insecurities, to my wish for attention, to my hopes that everybody will love me for who I am, writes Stephanie Burt, a...Jan 22, 2024
Behind the prison walls, I heard these women's storiesAdam Stumacher recognized the metal detectors and walkie-talkies inside the prison from his years teaching in schools that mostly serve low-income students of color. This is what the school-to-prison pipeline...Jan 11, 2024
Claudine Gay deserved better than this. So did HarvardWhether Claudine Gay should have remained as the university's president or resigned is not the issue, write Harvard professors Alison Frank Johnson and Stephen M. Walt. How the decision was...Jan 5, 2024
There’s no roadmap for being an adult with a disability. So I’m making my ownI wanted to live alone, go to college and find a girlfriend, writes Samuel Habib. I asked some of the most famous disability advocates for advice. Dec 13, 2023
Rosalynn Carter helped me, and thousands of other Cambodian refugees, surviveSoreath Hok was born in a Cambodian refugee camp after her family, like thousands of others, fled the fall of the Khmer Rouge. They survived because of the groundwork laid...Dec 1, 2023
I’d like to apologize to my BarbieI thought my Barbie would help me fit in with the rich girls, writes Shilpi Suneja. Instead, the doll made me stand out even more.Nov 7, 2023
'You belong here': That's what I tell other Black women who rowBaylor Henry rowed in the first all-Black, all-female eight boat in the Head of the Charles in 2022. She's created an Instagram account, blackgirlsrow, to encourage other young women of...Oct 20, 2023
Racial bullying in schools is on the rise — including here in Mass.Schools can prevent racial bullying and impose meaningful consequences when it occurs, write Alexis Rickmers and Oren Sellstrom.Oct 19, 2023
It's time to end religious exemptions for vaccinations in Mass.Proposed legislation in Mass. would eliminate exemptions from vaccination for students on religious grounds. No major religion prohibits vaccination, writes Rich Barlow, and these exemptions risk the health of some...Oct 16, 2023
'Language is blood; language is family’ — even if I’m losing my SpanishI know my Spanish grammar is in tatters and my fluency is slipping by the day, writes Judy Bolton-Fasman. Yet I remain fiercely Latinx. Sep 29, 2023
New laws threaten educators who teach history. Where does that leave our democracy?Universal public education should prepare American children for democratic citizenship, writes Kaylene Stevens. But new laws in states across the country may prevent educators from teaching about history, civic responsibility...Sep 28, 2023
Parenting teens is a dance of hope and dreadA recent high school prank reminded writer Oona Metz about the emotional complexity of both holding onto our children and letting them go.Sep 27, 2023
What I didn’t have to think about at a historically Black collegeAt Spelman, Blackness wasn't the first thing everybody saw, because it was something we all had in common, writes Nadia Harden. I didn't have to spend those formative four years...Sep 21, 2023
A letter, a flag, a Spider Man keychain: the relics first-year college students carry from homeIn a small seminar about the lived experience of mental illness, psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport asks her students -- all in their first year -- to share one object they've brought...Sep 13, 2023
The biggest threat to our students is gun violenceThe issue of gun violence is not theoretical for us, write educators Sydney Chaffee and TK Nagayoshi. It has become an unavoidable part of our work with children, diverting our...Aug 23, 2023
I’m almost always the first Asian American teacher my students have had. That’s a problemStudents of color benefit from having teachers who share their racial or ethnic identification, writes May Hara. But increasing teacher diversity is an especially urgent issue for Asian Americans, the...Aug 22, 2023
Don’t get stuck in a vortex of doom. There are plenty of reasons for climate optimismClimate optimism isn't about denying what's happening to our planet, writes Marcy Franck. It’s understanding that we know how to prevent things from getting worse, and we have a plan...Aug 21, 2023