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I'm a med student, but my boyfriend has just a high school education
How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
I peed at my desk in third grade and now I'm afraid to sing
I know I am different. I know I go for broke. What if my gift is rejected?
Don't be a morose teenager
Get a grip. We have passed the great test of a republic to survive the most incompetent leadership ever.
Teachers: Be subversive
Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher," talks with Salon about why No Child Left Behind squelches learning and about reading Rilke's sonnets to first graders.
Sexual harassment in art school
A certain 50-ish lothario lured a student into his office and made clumsy advances. Should a complaint be lodged?
Intolerance greets national LGBT awareness day
Not really getting the message, vandals and school administrators seek to silence the national Day of Silence.
The lords of Legotown
Seattle after-school program temporarily bans the bumpy plastic building blocks of capitalist meritocracy.
A fellow law student broke my nose and joked about it on Facebook
I am humiliated and outraged and don't know what to do.
Should I go to the extravagantly prestigious school of my dreams?
I'm an older student, and I could take a more prudent course, but...
Betrayal Week, Day 2: I was fired for doing my job as a teacher
Advice for creative types everywhere: Grow a thick skin. You're going to need it.
Graduate schools can drive you crazy
Why do arts graduate schools, in particular, bring out our vulnerabilities?
What am I doing here?
I got into the hot creative writing MFA program I dreamed of, but now I feel I don't belong.
How to eulogize the dad no one likes?
My friend's father is just one more reason feminism exists -- but can we say that?
The hothouse effect
The author of a new book about gifted children talks about the big business of "enrichment" and the joys of just being average.
America eats its young
We're sticking the next generation with debt and an unjust war. Solution: We must cut healthcare for people with "Bush-Cheney" bumper stickers.
Torture teachers
An Army document proves that Guantánamo interrogators were taught by instructors from a military school that trains U.S. soldiers how to resist torture.
Woman of Zimbabwe protest rising school fees
As education becomes out of reach for many students in the impoverished country, WOZA storms the streets again.
Reformed school girl
Christine Rosen attended a fundamentalist Christian school, but the doctrinaire teachings -- and the scary sex-ed classes -- couldn't stem the tide of her questions.
How to help African girls? Build toilets.
Poor sanitation makes it harder for girls in sub-Saharan Africa to stay in school.
Homework hell
Today's 7-year-olds must do interviews, look through thousands of words, and answer 60 math questions in four minutes. This homework mania doesn't teach kids anything except that life is full of pain.
Endless summer
Unschooling is a radical branch of home-schooling where kids control what and when they learn -- free of teachers, schedules and tests. Unschoolers say it's intellectually empowering. Critics call it irresponsible.
Separate schools for Katrina students?
Texas officials want to waive federal rules that prevent schools from segregating homeless students. But advocates and others are crying foul.
"Americans are not going broke over lattes!"
Home mortgages, insurance and, above all, children are driving middle-class parents into bankruptcy, says Harvard law professor and author Elizabeth Warren.
A laptop in every knapsack
Computers can spark a learning revolution, says the author of a new study of technology and education. But how will we pay for it?
Lynda Barry
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