Education is continuously evolving, always trying to improve to help provide the best education possible. When in high school, students often despise attending school and barely make it to graduation. Paolo Freire saw great fault in our education system and believed that teachers should not only be imparting knowledge to […]
Author Stephanie Dweck
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Doubled-Edged Sword (noun): Something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences. After reading the articles by Winifred Curran, the phrase Double-Edged Sword immediately came to mind. The effects of gentrification on industrial displacement is more complicated than at first glance. Like most issues, there are multiple sides […]
Brooklyn is a constantly evolving borough. Words that Brooklyn is defined by get re-defined and their connotations re-thought-out. Where the grittiness of Brooklyn was once something to force people out, it changed to a defining characteristic that drew people in. Brooklyn is now described as being “authentic”, making it cool […]
As I sat around the table with a group of college students, I was asked what I was majoring in. I responded that I was majoring in math education. Immediately I was asked why I would want to do a job that makes so little money? If I am good […]
The way we treat the stranger is of crucial importance to the way we live our lives as moral and ethical people part of a world beyond ourselves. Jane Jacobs, in her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, discusses the importance of different types of diversity in […]
