Peace Education: Lessons from the Underground
When Baran Yousefi describes her school years in Iran, she speaks softly, as though the story came out of secret rooms. Her teachers had to keep their names off lists. The government might close the school at any time. They couldn’t advertise or put up a website; word...
The World’s Coolest Schools!
Creating learning environments can be a wide-open world, a Grateful Dead improv. Or it can be militarily rigid, maybe for some cause. Some seem highly inefficient by our standards, and yet completely adapted to their native cultures, and those schools can be colorful...
A Hat from the Arctic
“There’s a gentle mystery to paddling this long river north, as if its quiet currents hide a secret soul below.” I do not know exactly why I accepted an offer to paddle canoes into the far north country and into the Arctic, but as soon as I got the offer, I knew it...
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