A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

“Rehumanizing The Humanities”

“Readers of this journal will know how, since the crises of 2020–21, classical education in grades K-12 has been growing by leaps and bounds as an alternative to the sclerosis affecting Big Education… There are now more than a million American children and young adults being educated using the same traditional methods and texts that […]

A Long Meditation On The Casualification Of Office Dress

At the end of the twentieth century, dress underwent another great change; call it the “Tailored Renunciation” or the “Casual Revolution.” Underlying it is not the triumph of one class but rather the loss among all classes of a sense of occasion. By “occasion” I mean an event out of the ordinary, a function other […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

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Peter Nilsson

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