How We Can Learn to Be Bored Again In a world that constantly screams for attention, boredom is an act of self-assertion. It's uncomfortable and therefore healing.

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Alameda Dom Afonso Henriques park, also known as Fonte Luminosa park, on a sunny afternoon in Lisbon, Portugal. To borrow an idea from UK editor and author Simon Jenkins, we need to “speak ...

We all know that times are hard, but we don’t agree on why, who’s to blame, or what’s to be done. We cast our fellow Americans in absurd extremes, assuming the worst possible motivations.

We need to focus more on how much students are learning over time—measure the value the school adds to student learning rather than how students fit into proficiency categories at a point in time.