

"I want to scoop ice cream but my school says I need an internship this summer." (Part 1.)
Last week I met with some of my graduating seniors and their parents. Everyone was quite excited and perhaps in awe of the passing of...

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We've got to stop checking boxes [in the application process]
This process is way too complicated and based on subjectivity to have an “arranged marriage" of ticked boxes and robotic responses. I...
Why I tell my students to be contrarians…and to not do a “summer programme” (unless…*)
We have to stop teaching adolescents that the way to “success” is to follow what the packs are doing.