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Back to what was once simply the end of summer

The start of the school year, has always been a bittersweet one for most children, parents, and teachers. For many kids, the start of...

What Politicians Can Learn about Silence from Emma Gonzalez

Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I’m not advocating any less talk from the survivors of Marjory Stoneman, or the thousands of other...

How the Post-Columbine Generation is Learning by Doing

The kids have decided it’s enough. They are fighting for their own lives in a way that politics and the dirty money associated with it...

Setting Our Priorities in the Apocalypse

It’s hard not to feel post-apocalyptic in the face of so much tumult. Harvey, Irma, and Maria have proven that Bill Nye is not the only...

Questions We Should Be Asking When We See Kids-on-a-Rope

September has many faces. For many, it’s the start of the school year, which is greeted by either joy or despair depending on whether you...

Honoring the Past and Engaging a New Generation of Activists

Each September 11, members of the NYPD and the NYFD and their families gather at the Firefighters Memorial right outside the front door...

How Significant Will September Be in the Future?

If April is the cruelest month, September may be one of the more complex ones. With the latter part of the month signals the beginning of...

How Will Today’s Lessons Learned Impact the Future?

In the cartoon accompanying this piece, Henry Payne transforms our concerns over the impact of changing values and gun violence into a...

How to Learn for Doing: Take a Gap Year!

Increasingly, people are realizing that the true value of education lies not in the degree, but rather the student’s ability to use...

How AI Can Make Us More Human(e)

Last evening’s NY EdTech Meetup kicked off with a clip from the film iRobot, with Will Smith bravely facing off against Artificial...

Rewriting Paradigms