Education

More than just a time difference: Reflections of an international student

Won-Jae Chang | November 27, 2020

A 14-hour time difference from Korea to Princeton is difficult, as anyone I’ve complained to about my sleep schedule can attest. Yet being an international student in the age of COVID-19 means much more than

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Searching for my reasons

Alex Zhao | October 9, 2020

More times than I can recall, I’ve started a class eager to learn about some fascinating topic. But as the semester progresses and piles on exams and homework, the course grows less and less interesting.

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Sleepwalking through School

Alden S Blodget | September 11, 2020

Failure is the fate of most teachers at least some of the time. In their classrooms sit students whom, despite their most heroic efforts, they just can’t reach–like TJ, a boy who traveled from Indiana

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The MAT 202 cheating scandal is a problem of our making

Jon Ort | August 28, 2020

For most of us, the news that the Committee on Discipline (COD) is investigating dozens of MAT 202 students warrants nothing more than a casual glance. We wonder how it must feel to be accused of cheating.

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Online School Doesn’t Need to Replicate the Classroom Model

Alden S Blodget | August 14, 2020

The sudden immersion into distance learning has not been easy for students or teachers. An article last spring in Forbes cites surveys that find that over 75% of high school students hate the experience, while

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The future of education: A lesson from COVID-19

Ollie Thakar | August 7, 2020

For the past year, I have wanted to write about technology in education. When I first arrived at the University, I was surprised that at an institution whose endowment lies multiple orders of magnitude beyond

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Why you don’t feel successful at Princeton

Liam O’Connor | July 31, 2020

I spent my first two summers of high school completing state-required gym classes so that I could fit more science classes into my schedule during the academic year. Every morning, I had to run a

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Voices from the Invisible: The Reality of Black Lives in Our Schools

Alden S Blodget | July 24, 2020

School people, especially boards and heads, are really good at spinning words into fluffy fantasies of utopian worlds where they have “created diverse, inclusive communities,” “protected and empowered the most vulnerable” and “cultivated environments to

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This isn’t normal

Julia Chaffers | June 12, 2020

A tweet went around this week saying that if you don’t come out of quarantine with a new skill or more knowledge, “you didn’t ever lack the time, you lacked the discipline.” It was a

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