The undergraduate student in my seminar enthusiastically recommended a book that had impressed him. He praised its excellent illustrations, especially the photographs of relevant Civil War manuscripts. However, he confessed that these illustrations were not helpful to him because he couldn’t read cursive. This revelation surprised me, so I asked the rest of the class …
As an admissions officer at a prestigious private university, I quickly became aware of the constraints of my job. My colleagues and I were tasked with creating a diverse and competitive student body, but that often meant relying on trauma narratives from historically marginalized students to showcase their resilience and adversity. This practice is not …
US Surgeon General recently released a report revealing the correlation between declining mental health in America’s children and teens and social media. According to Jonathan Haidt, the transition to smartphones during the late aughts and early 2010s has played a significant role in this trend. For this reason, he suggests banning phones from schools, not …
In 2020, as the world slowly began opening up again, my son and his friends ventured out while my daughter, Izzy, stayed home. At three years old, Izzy was ripe for learning and yearned for the company of other children. Finding the right school for her had been a journey filled with challenges. Izzy was …
When the reader at my book event in Michigan approached the signing table wearing a kippah, I knew what he was about to share. He waited until most of the other guests had left before recounting his experience at the supermarket that morning. Another shopper had bumped into him with a cart, and instead of …