Month: March 2013

• March 28, 2013

  Adventures in Ancient Nudity and Sexuality at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  In Idaho, tenth grade science teacher Tim McDaniel is under investigation for saying the word “vagina” in a sex ed class. In New York, students pass vaginas and penises every day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.   Newcomers may giggle a bit when the elevator doors open and we’re greeted by a forgotten Hellenistic […]
• March 18, 2013

  Can We Change The Way We Educate Our Students?

  Can We Change The Way We Educate Our Students? We need change desperately in education.  I am looking forward to the AERO (Alternative Education Resource Organization) conference to meet with others interested in change, too!   One of the keynote speakers is Nikhil Goyal – a former public school student who wrote the book, One Size Does […]
• March 16, 2013

  Why Gilgamesh is Important

  As a college professor, I often lament the way in which the New York City Public Schools prepare students for college and for the world at large.  Most schools are no longer requiring the reading of full length books, because taking time with a text takes away from test prep time.   Even if they […]
• March 10, 2013

  Remembering Harriet Tubman

  Harriet Tubman died one hundred years ago today.  If i ask my students who she was, they will know that she was a former slave and later abolitionist, and that she was instrumental in running the Underground Railroad.  She saved seventy slaves by bringing them to freedom herself, knowing that if she had been caught, […]