August 22, 2023 Is a new version of the brain coming? The theme of regeneration appears commonly in Intrepid Ed News, particularly in articles written by my colleague Benjamin Freud.
August 9, 2023 In her thoroughly researched and scrupulously fair-minded book Time to Think, Hannah Barnes relates the history and calamitous downfall of the Tavistock—England’s only child gender clinic. It’s
August 2, 2023 Is culture driving us crazy—in a good way? A Science Alert from late June of this year compared the chaotic patterns of the jet streams—the currents of
July 31, 2023 No two journeys are ever alike, because no two pupils are ever alike —Daniel Quinn I spent the best two months of my life during the summer
July 25, 2023 “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.” “Professor” Irvin Corey A sea squirt will metabolize its own brain. This hermaphroditic organism produces
July 18, 2023 I covered the disastrous impact that eugenic thinking had on high school design in my previous post. So, I was interested to see its continuing impact in the
July 12, 2023 Here, in the Northern Hemisphere, warmer temperatures and sunny days mean one thing: summer has finally arrived. Summer is the season of play, rest and relaxation for
July 3, 2023 Academic convention long eschewed first-person writing, for no good reason really. That is slowly changing. Even some scientists, trained to use the passive voice, have begun to
Summer Series 3: In the spirit of meaning-making, let’s revise the meaning of failure. June 29, 2023 It’s trendy in educational circles to talk about “embracing the learning experience of
June 28, 2023 In Judy Blume’s Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, 11-year-old Margaret learns a chant and exercise from her friend Nancy, the queen bee of 6th grade,