November 24, 2023“This car climbed Mt. Washington.” This bumper sticker is commonly seen in New England and refers to the highest peak…
November 17, 2023Starting at about age 18 months, my son’s favorite phrase became, “NO! By myself!” It didn’t matter what my request…
November 10, 2023[Editor’s note: This is a speech delivered to high school students, parents, teachers, and school board on a day honoring…
October 13, 2023Really? Did you just read that headline and have that reaction? Or did you sigh, and think, “You don’t need…
September 29, 2023“I’m walking. I’m walking right out of the door. I won’t ever be back.” The gray-haired teacher who was filmed…- September 22, 2023An article this week in Chalkbeat Tennessee told of Kamryn Sanders, an 8-year-old Memphis 3rd grader who walked out her…
September 8, 2023Honestly, it’s tough to be a perfectionist writing about perfectionism. Wait, let me rephrase that: a recovering perfectionist writing about…
August 4, 2023Having been the dean of admission at Princeton from 1978 to 1983, I read with interest that Harvard and Yale,…
July 7, 2023“My child is bored in 6th-grade math and I would like them to take Algebra I over the summer.” This…
June 23, 2023On Sunday, April 2, 2023, I read an interesting and provocative article by Frank Bruni that was published in the…
