As a college student studying community development and public service, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes a city feel like it belongs to everyone. A recent article in The Salt Lake ...
I am not the first person to submit that the use of letter grades in educational settings is a terrible idea. Grades are harmful and meaningless, destroying effective, student-driven learning, among ...
The U.S. Senate has just voted to permanently move the sun to a later rise by endorsing continuous daylight saving time. The biological understanding of children and the science of sleep strongly ...
If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...
To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher complained about ...
To the editor: Karin Klein's opinion piece on grade inflation was right on target. A is indeed for average. I became part of the problem as an adjunct professor at a prominent Midwestern private ...