Items tagged School

• Setting the feet on the pathway

  A parent chooses a unique form of education to help her sons develop a sense of "self."

• Failure and hope

  On the challenge of assigning students a grade and the qualities of ?failure.?

• Slaying the monsters

  How do we process what comes from the generation before to benefit the next generation?

• Himalayan idyll

  A meditation on the serious business of being a child.

• The other side of the bridge, or ?2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten?

  A high school reunion inspires reflection about change and growing up.

• Watching Hoosiers in the Himalayas

  Where is home?  Sometimes it travels.

• I am a nerd

  On the freedom of claiming an identity that's not cool.

• A graceful childhood

  A mental journey through the school years prompts gratitude for intangible gifts.

• Bombardment

  The emotional and spiritual education of gym class.

• Small town grudge

  Citizens of Farmland, Indiana, past and present: get ready to get over it.

• The Story

  An interview with Dawn Ulmer about her annual story.

• I was born in a small town

  A reflection on the passing away of an autumn tradition.

• An ordinary day

  A review of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant, a film depicting a high school shooting that is alternately sensitive and detached.

• Late night thoughts on the incident behind this issue

  An experience in a high school classroom prompts thoughts about the postmodern decline of shared cultural reference.

• By popular election

  Pondering the humaneness of democratic high school government elections.

• The mouse that roared

  A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.