Advanced Placement (AP) classes have come under scrutiny recently, with various arguments questioning their relevance in today’s education system. While it’s essential to acknowledge these concerns, it’s equally important to highlight the benefits of AP classes...
This strange year has proven several things about the standards of American education. Decades of test-centric tendencies have devalued critical thinking. It leads to lower capacities to speak, think, and most perhaps most importantly, to write. In particular, I look...
The Brookings Institution highlighted the overall impact of COVID on student achievement for the 2019-2020 school year, with implications for 2020-2021. In summary, students will find their progress in reading and math stunted. They project that students will maintain...
Geometry. Just the word makes any of us who grew up in the American school system cringe. The two-column proofs. Parallel lines. The seemingly endless scenarios in which we deal with triangles. The unanswered question: “Why do we learn Geometry?” It...
A generation or two ago, we were still dealing with discussions and arguments over the merit of spending the summer in school. “Let the kids play!” they used to say. Considering our current competitive environment, I find myself longing for the days when...
