Tag: school

Little Things You Can Do to Keep Your Connections Active

At a wedding I attended recently (September 9), I met some long-lost school and work colleagues. We all remarked about how long it’s been since we last met. Or even heard from each other. Given we all had the others’ contacts and lived in the same city, it made little sense to let tho...

Pico’s School: The game about school shooting that changed the Flash Gaming scene forever

Content Warning: School shooting, violence, gore, blood, discussion of racism, homophobia and sexism Pico’s School (1999) [Edited 21/09/2022: Tom Fulp contacted me to add a bit of informations and context about a few key points that I feel is important to add.] I have a profound r...

Abu Dhabi Indian School (Muroor Street) Review

Our children are the adults of the future. They are going to shape their tomorrow when they grow up. To do that properly, they need to have the right skills and knowledge, so they can contribute to our economy in the next few years to come. The first step to giving children the right kind of learnin...

De Amsterdamse School

Being a graphic designer I am obviously interested in the subject, culture and its rich history and I am really interested in architecture, (and contemporary art) especially how it has grown and developed over the 20th century. One of my real loves in architecture is the Brutalist movement —&n...

Choosing the Right German School in Berlin: A Comprehensive Guide

Understanding the Different Options Available Photo by Marius Serban on Unsplash Introduction: Berlin is a hub of education, with a wide range of schools offering German language courses. If you are looking to improve your German language skills, there are many options avail...

From Psych Ward to Grad School

I have made it back to the classroom! I’m not really sure how, but I am here. Despite fitting into a sea of identical Macbooks, stickered-up water bottles, and grad school dishevelment, I feel like the most obvious, prominent imposter. Surely they can see that I don’t belong? Surely they...

Let’s not think too far outside the box. This teen just wants a reliable T ride to school.

Many problems need an innovative solution, but the “entrepreneurs” highlighted in Scott Kirsner’s Innovation Economy column are looking too far outside the box to fix Boston’s transit woes. From interesting (water shuttles) to quixotic (self-driving cars), one word can descri...

From the Chicago School to the Los Angeles School

First of all, the Chicago School is an American current of thought that combines several sets of important works in the field of sociology and urban planning. The University of Chicago was the center of sociological researches before World War II. The Chicago School puts forward several theories on ...

Two Weeks Language School in London, Was It Worth Achieving C2, the Highest English Level?

Are you considering attending a language school in London for a couple of weeks? Maybe you’re trying to improve your English skills or just want to experience the city’s vibrant culture. Either way, investing time and money in language school can be daunting. In this blog, I’ll ...

Gladiator School: Stories from Inside YTS (Ep 13)

Editor’s note: This is Part 13 of “Gladiator School: Stories from Inside YTS” — an oral history of life inside California’s most notorious juvenile prison. Youth Training School (known formally as Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility) had a reputation fo...

From the Chicago School to the Los Angeles School

The two metropolises, that are Chicago and Los Angeles, found themselves confronted in a singularly sharp way with social and economic changes that affected the Western world at specific times in history, namely the industrialization of the 20th century and the globalization of the 21st century. Th...

Eight Days in CDMX; or, How Grateful I Am for That One Year of High School Spanish

I needed this. So a month or so ago, I blocked off two weeks of PTO, booked some flights to Cancun and back, and then another set of flights from Cancun to Mexico City, and then forgot about it for a while, then frantically scrambled to get my accommodations and some semblance of structure and sched...

Communicating School Performance Data: A User Experience Design Case Study

The Short and Sweet: My Role and Project Duration: I individually designed and presented this project from start to finish over two weeks. This project won a few awards: December 2017 Ironhack Miami UX/UI Hackshow: ***Overall Hackshow Winner, **Best UX Strategy, **Best Business Analysis, ...

What I learned at “Renovation School” in Tokyo

Have you ever heard of the “Renovation School” in Japan? You might already know that Japan is experiencing a rapid degeneration due to the declining population. This decline raises a lot of social issues such as daycare, taxation and a critical labor shortage — and remarkably th...

How to Rename Your Public School

Atthe very end of the 2021/22 school year the Vancouver School Board (VSB) launched a new Administrative Policy (AP) that set up a framework to rename schools (and other buildings owned by the board). Never before has it been possible to change the name of an existing school. ...

Inflationary Times Call for An Old School Love

I’m a grandmother three times over. I have young adult grandchildren at the age where they understand sex but still go “gross” if there is even a hint that grandma and grandpa could be engaging in physical contact. My sister pointed out that my honey and I are very “old schoo...

Hilltop School: Supporting Pregnant and Parenting Students

Hilltop School’s Special Service Center provides a safe academic environment where students grades 7–12 have the opportunity to prepare for post-secondary education, meet graduation requirements, access quality prenatal and parenting education, and receive health and emotional suppo...

The School Psychologist Asked How Long Has My Son Been "Sick" With Autism

My son got in trouble at school last week. His classmates had been bothering him a lot because he doesn't behave in what they consider to be the "normal" way. They had been calling him names, teasing him, and touching him on the arms and shoulders to get him to react. It was one ...

I Remember Perry as the Right Blames School Shooting on ‘Trans Extremists’

A school shooting in Perry, Iowa? Tell me it isn’t so! I used to know sleepy little Perry so well. A long time ago, I loved a boy who went to Perry High. My memories of overnights at his family farm fill me with the warmth of a rising sun. As red light broke over the horizon, we’d muck o...

How Public Schools Leverage Dishonest Reasons to Discourage Marginalized Students

My kids are fluent in Spanish, but we never included this fact on a school form. This was my wife’s deliberate choice. “If we tell the school they’re bilingual,” she said, “they’ll assume they are deficient and put them in remedial English.” I knew bet...

Why 2 Award-Winning Black Authors Were Silenced in a Tennessee School

Ifa tree falls in the woods, does it make a sound?” Of course, it does because the world does not begin or end at the point of your perception. Just because you are thousands of miles away from a forest doesn’t mean that the tree did not, in fact, crash to the ground and make a loud soun...

I Remember Perry as the Right Blames School Shooting on ‘Trans Extremists’

Creating Gender Inclusive Schools

As of this September, anti-trans legislation has been proposed in every state in the US except Delaware in the year 2023.(1) 23 of those states have passed 83 bills, many of which directly affect gender expansive students in public schools. I’m proud to say that the Oregon Department of Educat...

Featured Article: Regulating Gender in School Sports (January 10th, 2024)

Public debate over the participation of transgender women in women’s sports has proliferated in recent years, raising questions of fairness in contexts ranging from the Olympics to elementary school sports teams. School districts and athletics associations typically regulate who...

I Was Trans in an LGBT-Unfriendly School System

People always talk about how they’re shocked when partners, friends, or colleagues come out as trans. Maybe it’s because I’m trans/non-binary myself, but I’ve never been surprised. A lot of friends come out to me. When people tell me they’re trans or LGBTQIA, I just ...

How I got into Law School in Canada at 18

My journey to law school starts when I attended a high school in Texas from ages 15–16, 2019–2020. You might be thinking something along the lines of “law schools don’t look at your high school marks, why does this matter? Get to the good part!” But trust me, the story ...

Law School Tiers Explained For Perfect Career

Why law school tiers important for law career? Let’s have law school tiers explain for better understating of career prospects. My personal opinion is that law school rankings are probably the single most important factor a potential law student should look at when choosing law schools in the ...

Law School Blows

The only thing I hate more than law school is law students who say the following: “Law school’s not that bad,” or “I enjoy the classes, I like what I’m learning.” Shut up. It is that bad. Objectively speaking, it is that bad. Take a moment to pi...

The Opposite of Regret and Other Thoughts of a Law School Dropout

Somewhere deep among our pile of family albums, there’s a photo of six-year-old me sitting as straight as a six-year-old can on a little wooden chair. It was one of those dress-up-as-your-future-job day photo-ops. I’m in a barong and black slacks. On my lap is a law book hel...

On Old School Discipline.

The first time I experienced depression was during the summer of my first year at University. It should have been a time when the world was painted in vibrant hues, bursting with life and possibilities. Instead, it felt like my soul bore the crushing weight of lead. I had worked hard to get here and...

Law School: |”4 States-That Doesn’t Require Law School to be Recognized by the Courts”

In these states, individuals can become lawyers by completing a law office study program (also known as a “reading the law” program). These programs typically require the individual to study law for 2–4 years under the supervision of an experienced lawyer. Once the individual compl...

A letter to the law school class of 2026

I am very bold when I say that going to law school was the best decision of my life. It opened my eyes to a new more informed way of viewing our country and gave me the tools needed to break the glass ceiling in my profession, securing my seat at the table of senior leadership. Law school absolutely...

Overcoming failure in law school.

We all know that law school is a terrible place to be. It is known to be the “great-equalizer” which means every person who enters law school starts from zero. Forget about your credentials during your undergrad, your rank and your position from your respective work and your reputation o...

How to Request Transcripts for Graduate School

Some transcript requests cost money, some are up to $10. It is always worth asking if there is a fee waiver process; they may have one for those with financial hardship. If you’re applying to multiple schools, these fees can add up. This is the benefit of calling versus emailing, you might tal...

Trump School of Law

We hope that you are putting your education to good use and have become a great success in your chosen field. At the very least, we hope you were able to share in the $25 million settlement generously agreed to by our esteemed president and U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. Notwithstanding the ...

School segregation thrives in America’s most liberal cities

According to a newly released report, only 10% of admissions offers to New York City’s most elite public high schools went to Black and Latino students this year. This does not come close to reflecting the overall population of the NYC public school system, which is 67% Black or Latino. ...

School Board Candidate (Placed?) On Leave

Parents in LAUSD’s Board District 5 know how a public official’s corruption can affect them personally. In 2019, the elected representative for BD5, Ref Rodriguez was forced to resign after pleading guilty to felony charges related to his campaign, leaving this portio...

Opinion: Gun Laws: Where Do We Go From Here?

Another sad day has come and gone as a new school shooting has occurred, this time at a school in Perry, Iowa. Five people were wounded and two are deceased including the gunman and a 6th grader. Perry, Iowa, is a town with around 8,000 people surrounded by corn fields on the northea...

To my Republican friends: Reflections from a rally after the Nashville school shooting

A senior in high school talked about being afraid to go to school, and how horrifying it is to be downtown begging legislators to protect him — in the exact same spot his sister stood five years ago. She was a senior at the time, and she skipped school to do the same thing after a differe...

Unknown Headstones: My Journey to Carlisle Indian Boarding School

I traveled to the east coast for the very first time recently: Philadelphia, Washington DC and New York City. I delighted in east coast attitude and vernacular. I observed the stark contrasts between immaculate buildings and urban decay, massive monuments and street art. Eventually I ended up in Moh...

An Earthquake Jolted Me to Act

Itell my kids they wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for an earthquake. It was May 1990, mere weeks before my high school graduation. I was bound for UC Berkeley — school ID and dorm assignment already in hand — when I unexpectedly received a letter from Stanford. The 6.9-magni...

How "School Choice" Became a Racist Smoke Screen For White Flight

"School choice" may sound as harmless as a white winter hare to some and possibly empowering to others, but there's actually something much more sinister at play — anti-black racism. The underlying premise behind the national movement to provide vouchers for some studen...

The Racist History of The Academy at Mcateer and Ruth Asawa School of the Arts

While I’m reflecting on the systemic racism that has led to my exploitation, I am also thinking about how the district keeps using “antiracist healing practices” as a center of the work during this pandemic, and how I keep seeing people from Central Office quote Bettina Love, autho...

I Was Cool With My High School Reunion, Then America Hit Me in the Face

In America, is “white supremacist” a real estate marketing niche? Have pro-militia symbols replaced lit candles as home viewing lures? On YouTube, there’s a spooky video of my old, abandoned high school. For years, anyone could climb in through a basement window, bang locker ...

White parents in Sweden are openly advocating for school segregation

They are not ashamed, because in Sweden (and the rest of Europe) today, white people can do and say racist shit and still claim not to be racist. In part, this is possible because white Europeans have long worked to remove words like race and racism from our vocabulary. Gettin...

A School Shooter Is Being Platformed On TikTok

Sofar in 2023 alone, there have been 54 school shootings in the United States. Per reporting by CNN, of those violent events, 17 occurred on university/college campuses with the remaining 37 happening in schools K-12. In this nation, parents of school-age children must contend with the viola...

Chemistry: Most Practical High School Subject

Of all the high school subjects, high school chemistry is the most useful for all students after they leave high school. Obviously, having a little understanding of the chemical world is a good thing. A basic knowledge of chemicals, concentrations, pressures, acids, bases, and reactions helps tru...

School Bus Memoirs Part 2

A short teenaged boy goes to school at 5 am on a Saturday in mid April. He recently enrolled in his new high school and does his best to follow the path he started on at his previous school. He arrives at school, bleary-eyed and in time to ride with his track team to the meet. It’s a three hou...

The Yale Medical School ‘Did Ya?’ Lesson All You Non-Medical Types Can Learn From

“Medical Student, Year 3, Burg?” inquires the Whippledick-Worthingham Endowed Professor of Internal Medicine and All Other Forms of Brilliance and Scholarship. “Did you send the stat serum stool velocity titer (sssvt) and the cerebrospinal fluid Tupperware level assay (cfTla) on...

School of Shrooms

It’s Valentine’s Day and Kaycie López Jones is wearing a pink hoodie emblazoned with “love” in block letters as she guides 15 students and one proto.life contributor through a mindful movement practice on Zoom. At 6pm, it’s dark outside as we stretch and sway to ...

I Thought I Was a Bad Kid Until I Learned I Had ADHD.

Myelementary school teacher loved horses. Her family raised them on a ranch outside of town. There were photos and posters of beautiful horses all around her classroom, and she always dressed like she was going for a ride. Mrs. Dotson wore bolo ties, blue jeans and boots nearly everyday. And, once i...

Welcome to High School Calculus

Hi my name is Bella and I was once too, like many students, studying calculus in high school. I am now starting the publication High School Calculus to build up a comprehensive library of calculus content for high school students and beyond. The publication will have 7 subpages, ea...

Did The Ancient Greek Like Going To School?

School is one of, if not, the most recognized emblem of a modern society. Think Human Development Index or the notion of classroom being our best initiator of cultural change. It’s hard to find an infrastructure so widely acknowledged, yet so brutally criticized. They say high school is your b...

Ridiculous School Rules in Japan Reveal a Lack of Common Sense

The temperature is at the freezing point, possibly well below, as a seventeen-year-old boy walks to school. No big deal. I grew up in the mountains and did the same. The difference? I was allowed to wear a jacket. This boy in Kagoshima City could only wear his thin school uniform. Something barel...