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'Serious Subjects' vs. 'Frills'
My son's mid-semester report came last week. The news was that he's doing fine in everything but humanities and art...
WE LOVE OUR STIMULANTS IN THIS COUNTRY
"Medical school is the wrong place to train psychiatrists," writes Daniel Carlat in his new book, Unhinged: The Trouble with...
Definition: Foie Gras Blogger
Someone who periodically sends group e-mails containing material better suited to blog posts. Due to the sender’s relationship to recipients...
End of Semester Haiku
End of Semester Haiku beautiful weathercranky students and teachersexam week is coming! breakfasts and dinnerscelebrate great and good thingsevery frickin'...
Curricular Media Platforms?
Can somebody help me get a handle on the curricular media platform landscape? A colleague of mine uses the short-hand...
Math Geek Mom: A Meeting 140 Years in the Making
The idea of a tangent line is central to many aspects of mathematics. In geometry, we study when a line...
Top 10/50/100 lists
When I was a college freshman I had to take an English Literature course. It wasn't Lit 101/102 (the generally...
Long Distance Mom: Mira Nair
I attended an inspiring conversation with filmmaker Mira Nair recently at Columbia College Chicago. Nair spoke about how she arranges...