Showing Our Caregivers We Care About Them

Showing Our Caregivers We Care About Them

I am a physician and my husband works in finance. I work early hours and he travels for work. With two sons under the age of 6 and busy schedules, we needed flexible childcare and found this in the au pair program. After phone calls, emails, and exchanged photos of...

License to Kill

Regulations stink, right? Lots of politicians run on promises that they’ll get rid of them to make way for an economic boom. Well, have you ever considered what our world would look like without regulations? In the early 20th century, almost all paint contained...
Ohio’s Poorly Performing School Assessment

Ohio’s Poorly Performing School Assessment

I recently learned that I teach at a persistently poor performing school. It happened after Ohio bureaucrats unveiled new, “more rigorous” criteria for determining success and failure in the state’s public schools. My district, previously deemed...
A Parenting Priority

A Parenting Priority

Any kid can easily rattle off a list of their parents’ biggest sins. When I was younger, my gripes included my mom and dad stealing my Halloween candy and not letting me watch R-rated movies. Later on, I was ticked that my parents made me go to school on Senior...
The Art of Inequality

The Art of Inequality

Thomas Campbell directs the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. He’s smiling a great deal these days. Why? Campbell has just received something museum directors only dream about: a donation of paintings, drawings, and sculptures worth over $1 billion. The...