It is a rare moment that I am hopeful about our educational system, but in the last week, there has been some reason to be optimistic. ...

I recently overheard a mother of college-age kids talking about helping her children find their passion. Then I received an email from a p...

I once had lunch with a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. I asked him how it felt to be in charge of a fraudu...

It has been 20 years since I wrote about the top ten mistakes in education. Although this list is on many places on the web, here is the o...

I was walking on the beach in Florida and thinking about how the young people I passed were not all on their cell phones (as seems usual w...

This is the actual title of an actual article published in the The Atlantic. I am saying this in this way because the question itself i...

As I write this I am at sea, both literally and figuratively. I was just getting away from it all for a week, but now as the week comes to ...