What Schools Can Learn from Tomatoes

The following story in the June 28, 2012 New York Times immediately caught my eye: Flavor Is Price of Scarlet Hue of Tomatoes, Study Finds “A gene mutation that makes a tomato uniformly red... Read More »

Avoiding “Voluntourism”

Global education, hands-on learning, and service to others have gained increasing traction in schools, colleges, and universities. Today, middle school, high school, and college students take their... Read More »

Moving Forward

Lately I have been thinking a good deal about a well-used phrase in our society, “moving forward.” It pops up in some cases when describing how we proceed into the future; in other... Read More »

Re-Imagining Education

In a May 17 headline entitled “Whites Account for Under Half of Births in U.S.,” The New York Times confirmed a well-known trend: the United States is rapidly becoming a multi-racial and... Read More »

Thank You, Maurice Sendak

Crazy cooks. Big-toothed monsters. Whales in chicken soup with rice. Maurice Sendak defied the notion of a simple, safe world. With childhood as his foil, he explored the fanciful and the... Read More »

Stranger at the Gate?

I once again had the privilege of hearing the Rev. Paul Lawrence–Wehmiller, this time at the New York State Association of Independent School’s annual Diversity Conference, the theme of... Read More »

It’s Not What You Think!

On Palm Sunday, the New York Times Magazine carried an interesting article about a woman who identified herself as a “prodigal child,” when it came to churchgoing. As she began, in her... Read More »

Palm Sunday

As a child, I loved Palm Sunday. While the rest of Lent focused on what we were “giving up,” we actually “got” something on Palm Sunday—a gift from heaven, as it were.... Read More »

Following Dale

Many of us were stunned and shattered by the last week’s death of Dale Regan, head of school at Episcopal School of Jacksonville. I only knew Dale through an occasional email exchange or a... Read More »