At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

Lorenzo Z. Ruiz ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Government Concentrator in Winthrop House. After a year of committees, action plans, and panels, Harvard’s commitment to their “intellectual ...

W hen Agnes Bolinska was an undergraduate, she didn’t talk much in class. “I was scared of being judged, and I was scared of saying the wrong thing,” said Bolinska, who is now an assistant professor ...

Since coming to Brown, I’ve noticed that men tend to speak more frequently in my classroom discussions. I’ve had many conversations with friends about this who have noticed the same trend across a ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to navigate new state laws restricting classroom discussions. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I’m a professor at a branch campus of a large state-university system in ...

It’s been a while since I’ve been in the classroom and around students regularly, and I hear things have changed quite a bit since then. No doubt they have, but some good things still remain — or at ...

The Nampa School District in Idaho will move forward without gender identity and sexual orientation discussions in the classroom after a vote was held to adopt a policy limiting such topics. The ...

I was alarmed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin's recent executive order ending the use of "inherently divisive concepts" including critical race theory. Youngkin, in effect, is preventing classroom discussion ...