If you’re hearing few howls and seeing little rending of garments over the impending death of institutional, high-quality journalism, it’s because the public at large has been trained to undervalue journalists and journalism. That was written about three years ago in a much-talked-about Atlantic article, “End Times,” which essentially predicted the end of the print edition …
I’ve been on a whole bunch of trains in the past two months. I rode the Southwest Chief from Chicago to Newton, Kansas, and saw a beautiful sunset over the fields of southern Illinois. I’ve taken the Chicago subway from O’Hare Airport ($2.25 will get you downtown – a much better deal than a …
When I was five, I used to scribble in pretend cursive on scraps of paper, then thrust them at my mom and say, “Read!” And, despite whatever other things a mother of four who also worked full-time had to do, she would always pause to point out the letters that my childish scrawl had accidentally …
I’ve heard the terms, and so have you: “21st century teaching” “21st century learning” “21st century workforce” “21st century skills” What hasn’t been labeled “21st century” these days? As so many have already pointed out, we’re more than one decade in. So the adjective, as a representation of forward-thinking, is rapidly losing its relevance. But …