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  • Psych meds for kids: Too much, too soon?

    Some psychiatric drugs do help children, but school and family are crucial, too.
    By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. March 10, 2000

  • Kids on drugs

    A behavioral pediatrician questions the wisdom of medicating our children.
    By Lawrence H. Diller, M.D. March 9, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    Are black leaders hypocritical in their response to hate crime? Plus: Limbaugh's rush to judgment on McCain; do teachers necessitate tutors?
    Letters to the editor March 8, 2000

  • Stealth merchandising

    Why is the venerable Scholastic book club company peddling cheesy toys in classrooms?
    By Shoshana Marchand February 29, 2000

  • Letters to the Editor

    Turning xenophobic about the Japanese Plus: Stephen Prothero's article is a simple case of Skull and Bones envy; so what if Al inhaled? We all did
    Letters to the Editor January 26, 2000

  • My husband is a man in a woman's world

    Being the wife of a grade-school teacher is like being the husband of Queen Elizabeth -- Ol' What's-his-name.
    By Mary Valle January 12, 2000

  • Experimental lesson

    I've always tried to make my teaching like an art, but as I've grown more successful, have I become a hack?
    By David Alford November 19, 1999

  • Body paranoia

    Ghostly heart attacks, cancers and other assorted ills have plagued me for the last 31 years. Could the cause be my beloved job?
    By David Alford November 12, 1999

  • After the apocalypse

    Returning to the philosophy class that I had canceled, I wasn't sure who or what I would find.
    By David Alford October 29, 1999

  • Class dismissed!

    After another personal blow-up in philosophy, I took the only out: To shout like Jehovah and declare the end had come.
    By David Alford October 22, 1999

  • The migration of the chalk

    In a small town in Mexico, a teacher gave me the chalk and demanded a lesson in revolution.
    By David Alford October 15, 1999

  • Love letters in the sand

    I was his English teacher, 14 years older. But on the beach in Mazatlan, love is love.
    By Susan McKinney de Ortega October 15, 1999

  • "The Iliad" and other tales of war

    My momentous monologue turns to dust under the scrutiny of a well-prepared student.
    By David Alford October 8, 1999

  • The killer questions

    When the Socratic method gets out of hand, students can learn to think -- and to draw blood
    By David Alford October 1, 1999

  • Epic moment

    Sometimes we just have to stand aside and let our students become the teachers.
    By David Alford September 17, 1999

  • The first day of the last year

    After poker, sex and forgetting, I face a room full of faces and suddenly remember.
    By David Alford September 10, 1999

  • Tough lessons

    An interview with firebrand educator Esmi Raji Codell.
    By Fiona Morgan June 14, 1999

  • To sir, with love?

    The last thing my professor taught me was that he was only human.
    By Susanna Stromberg March 13, 1999

  • Walking on silk

    A massage teacher in Thailand changes a Westerner's life.
    By Thomas Golembeski February 22, 1999

  • Hell no! We won't grade!

    Will the upcoming strike by University of California graduate teaching assistants raise them from their serflike status -- or spell their eventual doom?
    By Sean McMeekin November 30, 1998

  • Don't stand so close to me

    The Supreme Court ruling to protect school districts from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves.
    By Dawn MacKeen June 30, 1998

  • Class warfare

    In the second of two articles, a teacher who was on the front lines describes how a California high school became a battleground in the struggle over what America's students should be taught about homosexuality.
    By Ira Eisenberg June 2, 1998

  • Into the heart of China

    On summer vacation, Joshua Cohen and a fellow English teacher based in Hunan venture into the rural north to visit their star student -- and get a glimpse of rural realities.
    By Joshua Cohen May 12, 1998

  • Media Circus: Vice grip

    All I really need to know I learned in high school from Robert Fulghum.
    By Rebecca Ransom November 6, 1997

  • Crooning the expat blues

    You move abroad, and suddenly you're making more money and dating sexier women than you ever could in the states. So why aren't you happy?
    By Karl Taro Greenfeld September 30, 1997
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