school
Students’ chances of tossing their graduation caps on time can vary widely by the US state where they attend high school.In Alaska, the rate of students who graduate from high school in four years is 79.87%, compared to Kentucky’s 93.60%.While graduation rates are one way to measure academic achievement and…
Last month, I was opening a cardboard box full of graduation robes. It was a normal service day of mothers helping out for the upcoming event. The room was filled with women making sure life goes as planned.And then there was me, suddenly drenched in sweat as I tried to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Brandon Axelrod. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m in debt because I’m in my first year of oral and maxillofacial surgery residency in Manhattan. My current total is over $400,000 across 10 to 12 different loans, plus accruing interest.I…
Elementary school is filled with so many monumental moments that parents try to capture. There are the kids standing by the balloons in front of the school on the first day, the holiday concert, Field Day, or a hundred other school activities that we’re lucky to join in on. For…
When I graduated with a degree in journalism three years ago, I’d hoped to have a full-time, salaried job in my field by now. Loading audio narration… Instead, most of my days are a hectic blend of part-time and unpaid roles.I often find myself running to my retail job in…
Time is a thief. When each of my four children was born, I thought they would be little forever. The baby and toddler years are so all-consuming that it seems like they will never end. But I learned, quickly, that the axiom that the days are long but the years…
The US Army’s notoriously tough Ranger School at Fort Benning, GA, is adding a new challenge for students — a bayonet assault course designed to prepare troops for the brutality of close combat and teach them to hold their own when high-tech warfighting goes dark. Loading audio narration… Army officials…
When my son told me the details of his nine-day school trip to England last June, one rule stood out above the rest: they wouldn’t be able to use their phones for the majority of the trip. Loading audio narration… He’d be an ocean away, staying in dorms at a…
I was a 90’s kid in San Diego. That meant playing outside or at the park alone, walking our dog around the neighborhood, and going to the nearby store to buy snacks and treats when our mom was at work. Loading audio narration… While we weren’t exactly latchkey kids, we…
A few years back, when ChatGPT first became available, the hype got loud, and one of my freelance clients was shouting the loudest. He called me one afternoon and declared that paying writers was a thing of the past, as this new technology could do in five minutes what all…
