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If there is a hero to this story, it is David Sunquist, a young high school math teacher, who volunteered in the spring of 1962 to teach a handful of...

But the saga of Math 100, described in the previous entry, was not over.  There was a final piece of the story to be revealed.  At my fiftieth high school reunion I...

DECODING CULTURAL CAPITAL     “How hard is it to raise one’s hand, to approach an instructor after class, or to come to office hours to discuss a difficult assignment?” Let’s...

Arranging Victories for Students Confronted with images like many of those on this page, some students are as confused as I was by the equations of Professor Brown.  But in...

            I have been told that this little story is true.  I have no reason to doubt its accuracy, but its importance lies, not in its historicity, but rather in...

            The United States has been waged more major wars during my life time, than in any comparable period of American history. I have somehow survived World War II, Korea,...

       I have never been very proficient at the art of chess.  The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the...

Never was the tension between teaching and tenure so visible to me as in those moments, locked in an undergraduate apartment, as the reels of the tape recorder turned, and...

I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this...

            Several years ago in a workshop in Liverpool, Gregor Novak, the founder of Just-in-Time Teaching, commented that in most courses the final exam is like an autopsy – it...

              The look of utter horror on the faces of my luncheon companions was only visible for an instant, before they reestablished their habitual control over their emotions.  But in...

     In the two decades of my life between kindergarten and completing course work for my Ph.D., I had dedicated teachers from whom I learned a great deal.  But I...

     Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I...

      We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone.  They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other...

            I have spent a significant amount of my life in faculty meetings.  Time that might have been spent in meaningful activity. Hours that will never be returned to me....

 [For some time two concerns have hovered in the back of my consciousness: the total inability of contemporary culture to generate visions of a positive future and the absence of...