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 [...]

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 [...]

How well do you spell? Is it ridiculous to pose such a question to an adult? I think not! Misspelled words and grammatically incorrect sentences really bother me. The thought that they are more widespread than ever is like nails on the chalkboard of my life. I have often wondered how children turn into teenagers [...]

Ruby at School’s Out has selected Chasing Education for the One Lovely Blog Award. I’d like to give a great big thank you to Supermom Ruby–it doesn’t get any cooler than Science Sunday!–and I’d like to spread the love. Here are the rules of the “One Lovely Blog” award: 1. Accept the award 2. Post [...]

I took the GRE yesterday. Two months of preparing for the GRE, two weeks of fretting and 3 hours later, I emerged unscathed. While I am not going into the GRE hall of fame, I shouldn’t have any trouble getting into my program with my scores. I do believe that there were quite a few [...]

I adore school– really I’m serious! I am so high-strung and test day stresses me out to the point of being physically ill, but I love it. I feel so accomplished when I succeed and so motivated when I don’t quite succeed. It’s been this way for as long as I can remember. For a [...]