There’s been a lot of controversy about the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why (produced by Selena Gomez) and how it sends the wrong message to young people about suicide and [...]

For those of you who read my blog and books, you know I teach and try to find role models for my young students. Some of the ones I select [...]

...That was the order given to the test subjects who administered a nearly lethal electrical shock to unwitting “learners” in the Milgram obedience experiment, administered over fifty years ago, at [...]

When we read something outlandish in a novel, we think that could never happen in real life, and we break that willing suspension of disbelief that makes reading fiction so [...]

  On Wall Street there's a bronze statue of a girl who looks about the same age as the sixth graders in the middle school that I teach. She looks [...]