April 21, 2023The GPA system can stunt our intellectual growth due to undue pressure and excessive grading. As an international student,…
April 14, 2023I am sure you have heard (or experienced) that children become greater risk-takers during adolescence. As parents, we may stay…
March 31, 2023Of all the claims that schools make, perhaps the most ubiquitous is the assertion that “our students learn to take…- March 24, 2023Content warning: This article discusses disordered eating and eating disorders. I always thought it made sense to obsess over…
- March 17, 2023People of all races should see themselves in Black history. In elementary school, February was the only time I…
March 10, 2023I’ve been spending a large part of my time recently training and learning to train my partner’s new service dog,…- March 3, 2023[Editor's note: Educators may find "A Mathematician's Lament," cited and linked in this essay, interesting reading.] Evidently phonics instruction…
- February 24, 2023How Penn did and didn’t prepare me to teach you I took a leap to become your teacher; after…
February 17, 2023If you’re frantically scrolling through LinkedIn, Handshake or Indeed looking for jobs and internships like me, you probably noticed that…- February 10, 2023I did not grow up a “gamer.” I never played D & D. We had an Atari (I am that…
