For Kay (April Paul), the rookie teacher in Next Act Theatre's "Principal Principle," the English department's communal office is a daily seminar in two required subjects: How to teach kids in a ...

Cass Sunstein has a nice piece looking at the claims that Thomas Piketty makes about inequality and whether that actually accords with what most people think are acceptable levels of inequality.

DEAR WORD COURT: When I was in high school, some years ago, a teacher who was a grammar Nazi made a fuss about "principal" and "principle." She definitely impressed on me that there's a difference ...

DEAR WORD COURT: When I was in high school, a teacher who was a grammar Nazi made a fuss about "principal" and "principle." She definitely impressed on me that there's a difference between the two ...

One summer day in 1948 William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train ...