I have been very privileged and I wonder if that qualifies me or disqualifies me when it comes to giving advice on education. My parents are well-educated and planned from the beginning to have well-educated children. They put money away to put my brother and me through school. My mother patiently helped me with my [...]

Thomas L. Friedman, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, recently wrote this article. I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing, but I will share with you the bottom line: ” We’re not going back to the good old days without fixing our schools as well as our banks.” Our economy didn’t break [...]

Dear Life, You are very expensive. I know you have to make your money one way or another, but maybe you could spread it out over a few months. You may not have meant to do it, but you arranged for my brake pads to be replaced after I bought an instant camera (so maybe [...]

The situation is out of control. 6-year-old Cub Scout faces 45 days in a reform school for taking a utensil to school 8-year-old suspended for sniffing a marker 13-year-old strip searched under suspicion that she had ibuprofen I have been baffled by the enforcement of no-tolerance policies in schools across the nation. There are 22 [...]