By: Uma Attreya Have you ever taken a class and thought, if only someone had warned me against taking it? Or, the opposite, where you wish you had taken a class? I […]
What Attending My Dream School Means to Me
By: Alexandra Li I have many memories of visiting some of our nation’s finest universities. When my family went to California, we made sure to visit Stanford, Berkeley, and Caltech. When we […]
What We Don’t Know Does Hurt Us
By: Uma Attreya I’m sure everyone has heard the sayings “what you don’t know won’t hurt you” or “ignorance is bliss.” Granted, all sayings are not applicable to all situations, but I […]
Shakespeare has been dead for a long time
By: Ashvin Nagarajan I laughed at the comedy, “The Merchant of Venice,” as much as the next guy, but the current educational system has become a tragedy. We sit in classrooms reading […]
PARCC: Testing Dystopia
By: Kris Schneider In second grade, you may remember taking the relatively simple TerraNova standardized test, geared towards what students learned up to that point in elementary school. Then for the next […]
Malala Yousafzai Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
By Kris Schneider Attending school every day is something most children in America don’t think twice about. Most actually resent the concept of going to school. Few regard education as a right […]
Understanding our existence: the importance of humanities education
By: Nicky Barone Recently, many lobbying groups and educational organizations have pushed for the cutbacks of English, history, music, art and foreign language programs in public schools in favor of STEM courses […]
The Caldron 