My Most Over-the-Top Moment as a Mother
When my daughter's fencing coach moved to Seattle, I was beside myself. How, I worried, could she explain on her college applications why she stopped fencing senior year?
When my daughter's fencing coach moved to Seattle, I was beside myself. How, I worried, could she explain on her college applications why she stopped fencing senior year?
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.24.2008 | Living
The bus schedules should have arrived in your mail by now and we have instituted a policy that awards school credits to any student who shows up at the bus stop with a full can of gasoline.
Abigail Jones | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
Normandy High School officials should have come out strongly, advocating openness, pushing sex education, and acknowledging the problems and pressures of teenage life.
Washington Post | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
via The Washington Post: Last night, four members of the Walt Whitman High School Debate Team from Bethesda, Md., debated John McCain and Barack Oba...
Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics
I'd rather be thrown out for the truth than group-hugged for a lie.
Pauline Millard | Posted 09.29.2008 | Media
These aren't people I see everyday but it's nice to hear from them every now and again.
Donald Liebenson | Posted 09.15.2008 | Living
At parent orientation for incoming high school freshman, the principal encouraged us to get involved with our kids, to ask questions. So I sat my son down and, bracing myself, asked about the mixtape.
Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley | Posted 09.10.2008 | Living
High school will be a whole new world for your daughter, including a changing social scene where partying, drinking, and hooking up may seem suddenly expected. You--her parents--can help her safely navigate all of it.
Lindsay Dittman | Posted 09.03.2008 | Living
Heading into my senior year of high school, I'm entering it with a much clearer head because I know that somewhere in my four years, I did something constructive.
Lindsay Mannering | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living
Once a year I officially donate money. I write two checks, one to my high school and one to my university. I fill out the insert that comes in the s...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 07.07.2008 | Living
Why do teens get eating disorders? Blame it on their friends! But wait, it's not that simple. In fact, it doesn't matter which group teen girls actually fall into, but only which group they most identify with.
Alex Remington | Posted 07.06.2008 | Living
For other classes, I bought $80 textbooks geared for the AP exam. In Steve's class, I received handouts from century-old Russian books because he said they taught logarithms better before the fall of the tsar.
Kat Cohen | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living
Before you can even begin to consider the, "Will my child get in to her top choice college?" question, it's impossible not to reflect on the cost of attending college. And college costs are rising.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living
Graduation often means going home or moving away, leaving the familiar and making new starts. But make yourself a promise to keep up with your school chums - they're the best graduation gift you can get.
Bil Browning | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living
Everyone remembers the first time they had sex. It sticks in your memory and can help shape future sexual desires and preferences. As I was scanning...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.15.2008 | Politics
Her boyfriend had been one of the most popular and best students in the history of Just Like High School. He played first-chair saxophone in the Just...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
Prom night can be anxiety ridden for many reasons - underage drinking, drugs, car accidents and, of course, all of the s-e-x. What you ought to be worried about is the cost.
Jeremy Axelrod | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living
Excelsior High is a fiction, set in "fictional Bristol Country Secondary School in the fictional Staedtler, Ontario," but the students are drawn and renamed from an actual yearbook.
Michael Shaw | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
New York Times | SAM DILLON | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
When it comes to high school graduation rates, Mississippi keeps two sets of books. One team of statisticians working at the state education headquar...
Jane McGivney | Posted 01.11.2008 | Entertainment
Prom dresses: it's like the wedding dress challenge but 10 years younger and 100 times less rational. Genius!
Sarah Seltzer | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics
The college craze that engulfs the affluent each year magnifies our neglect of failing public schools.
Erika Schickel | Posted 09.24.2007 | Living
Our family hit the jackpot: we got a call from the Holy Grail of LA public schools informing us our daughter had been accepted into the seventh grade.
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Marilyn M. Machlowitz | Posted 11.25.2008 | Living