Sage Thinking: What Makes Kids Happy?

My wife and I both work in education. She is an English Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in English at a large University. I am Head of a small K-8 independent elementary school. The following are two stories to illustrate the trends we see in modern parenting. See if you can guess which […]

Absurd Competition

I recently attended the National Small Schools Conference in Falmouth, MA, a gathering of leaders from small independent schools. One of the keynote speakers was Janet Rapelye, the Director of Admission at Princeton University. Ms. Rapelye showed us lots of demographic information relative to high school aged students in various regions of the country. No […]