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Be a Good Person: Get Admitted to College

Be a good person: Get into college. Well - it's not quite a simple as that but it is true…

9 years ago

Racial Justice: Are we making any progress?

We celebrate  Martin Luther King's birthday on Monday and that means a day off. It's a recent habit to use…

9 years ago

In medicine and education: “The secret of quality is love”

“The secret of quality is love,” Avedis Donabedian, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, expert…

9 years ago

Remembering Joe Bower

I never met Joe Bower but it seemed easy to imagine knowing him.  He was one of those people you…

9 years ago

Happy New Year

A small selection of New Year's greetings from a a century ago.  

9 years ago

1915 and The Midnight of the Nations

On Christmas Day 1915 David Lloyd George the former radical liberal,then Minister of Munitions and soon to be Prime Minister…

9 years ago

Winter Solstice

The winter solstice - the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The earth - tilted away from the sun…

9 years ago

Finding the Heart of Progressive Education

Finding the Heart of a Progressive Education What follows is the text of the article recently published by Hudson Valley…

9 years ago

The 100 Ways Children Learn and Why You Should Ignore Them

Learning styles - they used to be everywhere. You know - learning styles -  that notion that the way children…

9 years ago

Keep Your School All-American

Here's some good advice from Superman worth sharing in these political times of divisive politics and inflammatory anti-immigration rhetoric. "...and…

9 years ago