High School in Southern Georgia: What ‘Career Technical’ Education Looks Like
by James Fallows
A school that is famous for football is notable in an entirely different way. (Read it here.)
Category Archives: Education
What My School Means to Me: Essays from 3 High Schoolers
What My School Means to Me: Essays from 3 High Schoolers
by Deborah Fallows
How students at an unusual school think—and write—about their experience. (Read it here.)
Why We Never Get Over High School
Why We Never Get Over High School
by Deborah Fallows
Across the nation, people have different questions they ask when meeting someone new. There are hidden meanings in all of them — including a popular one about schooling. (Read it here.)
Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts
Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts 
by Deborah Fallows
“One half dream; one half plan.” That’s how one student described his life at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. (Read it here.)
America’s Tiniest Engineers: Report From Greenville, South Carolina
America’s Tiniest Engineers: Report From Greenville, South Carolina
by Deborah Fallows
Here are some of the sights and insights from my morning at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering (Read it here.)
A School With a Sense of Place
A School With a Sense of Place
by Deborah Fallows
Several of the students described their final projects, which included a welding piece, drama productions, and a magazine, among others. My favorite was a video showing how machines helped society recover from a disaster. “What was the disaster?” we asked. The answer, which reminded us that we were indeed among high schoolers: zombie apocalypse. (Read more of it here.)
Career-Oriented Education vs. the Liberal Arts
Career-Oriented Education vs. the Liberal Arts
by John Tierney
Readers weigh in with compelling opinions on Maine Maritime Academy, liberal-arts colleges, and big questions. (Read it here.)
Who Are You Calling a Vocational School? In Defense of Maine Maritime
Who Are You Calling a Vocational School? In Defense of Maine Maritime
by John Tierney
Holy cow. Now my blood pressure was rising, and I didn’t even have a dog in this fight. I didn’t go to MMA; I just wrote about it. But I resented – on behalf of Maine Maritime Academy and its students and faculty, past and present – the smug, arrogant condescension of her reply. (Read it here.)
An Educational Surprise From Down East: The Maine Maritime Academy
An Educational Surprise From Down East: The Maine Maritime Academy
by John Tierney
How a school you’ve (probably) never heard of is preparing students for good jobs. (Read it here.)
Report From Rural Maine: What It Takes to Make a School
Report From Rural Maine: What It Takes to Make a School
Shead High School, home of the Tigers, sits on a hill in Eastport, Maine, just a short walk from everything else in town. I went to visit, curious about what a small public school in very rural, maritime Maine, with a total of 110 students, would be like. (Read it here.)
American Futures 