-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Blogroll
ErikaChristakis
- @THE_BWood what do you object to? Free speech in an open society? See follow up: erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 1 day ago
- @BorobodurA what do you object to? Criticism in an open society? See follow up: erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 1 day ago
- @DavidBSalva yes private. And open to criticism like anything else in our free society. See follow up erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 1 day ago
- Are The Boy Scouts Knuckling Under? wp.me/p2gSp7-Qp 1 day ago
- @SamJolman thanks. Nice post. 1 day ago
To Want “But LIttle”: Reflections From a Second Grade Classroom
Author Archives: ErikaChristakis
The Little State That Could (or: More Warm Fuzzies for Mass-holes)
I’m re-posting something I wrote last year, about my home state, that seems especially appropriate today. Enjoy. (I hope it goes without saying that I’m not trying to make light of recent events, but I am thinking rather fondly about … Continue reading
Posted in My story
Tagged athol, belchertown, big dig, cape cod, funny massachusetts towns, great white sharks, massachusetts, massholes, seals, taxachusetts, whitey bulger
2 Comments
A Boston Patriot
(Update: I just learned that the sister of one of our dining hall workers here at Harvard College was among the victims. My heart goes out to her devastated family.) The Shot heard ’round the world. The cry, too. My … Continue reading
Posted in My story
Tagged battle of lexington and concord, Boston Marathon, concord, old north bridge, patriots day
Leave a comment
How to Survive an Attack
There’s something grimly understated about this article from the NYT on how to survive a mass homicide attack. Apparently, we now have a large enough sample size from these shootings to talk intelligently about predictors of survival: Research on mass … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults, Public Policy
Tagged gun lobby, gun violence, mass homicide, new york times
Leave a comment
Can We Get Kids Off the College Admissions Hamster Wheel?
Here’s a piece I just posted at WBUR’s Cognoscenti. It’s a real proposal for an experiment that I think could “work” in the sense that no matter what the outcome, we would gain useful information with no real harm (or … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults, Other published work
Tagged admissions rat race, college admissions, getting into college, Harvard, high school seniors, Ivy league, Suzy Lee Weiss, teens, the college admissions game is rigged, vassar college, Wall Street journal, WBUR Cognoscenti, young adults
3 Comments
What’s Really Scandalous About the School Testing Scandal
Sorry I’ve been off the grid for a while! Here’s my TIME.com post this morning on the real scandal behind the Atlanta public schools cheating scandal. If you care about what’s going wrong in our education of children, you might be … Continue reading
Gone Maple Sugarin’ (Instagram version)
Apparently my life would be richer with Instagram. My kids keep telling me to get (an?) (on?) Instagram. I think it’s a graphical Twitter, which isn’t as illuminating to me as you’d think. This stuff confuses me. I was very … Continue reading
Posted in My story
Tagged how to make maple syrup, making maple syrup, maple sugar, maple trees, sugar maples, sugar shack, tapping trees, Vermont
4 Comments
