Mongol prince studying the Quran, miniature from a fourteenth-century edition of Rashid al-Din’s Compendium of Chronicles.

Mongol prince studying the Quran, miniature from a fourteenth-century edition of Rashid al-Din’s Compendium of Chronicles. Universal History Archive / UIG / Bridgeman Images.

Education

Volume XIV, Number 4 | fall 2022

Hearts and Minds

Paul Tough

A Means to an End

Michael D. Hattem

Misdirectives

Ian Altman

A Speculative Endeavor

Eleni Schirmer

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Common Good

1791 | Paris

The Omicron Curriculum

2022 | New York City

Social Clearinghouse

c. 1900 | New Haven, CT

Study Hall

1798 | Stans

Pernicious System

1882 | Pune

Medical Residency

1917 | Great Lakes

Civics Class

1977 | Pyongyang

Homeroom

c. 1933 | Yuma, AZ

Library Bard

1650 | London

Community Service

1910 | Atlanta

Obvious Truths

1901 | Chicago

Radical Reform

1968 | Berkeley

Trivial Pursuit

1827 | Hartford, CT

Book Club

1741 | London

Manual Labor

1904 | Chicago

Autodidact

1859 | Springfield, IL

Revision Process

1961 | Havana

Bench Pressed

1909 | Rome

Spell-Check

c. 533 | Ravenna

Topic Sentence

2021 | Austin, TX

How Can We Help?

2022 | San Francisco

Monstrous Errors

c. 1908 | Paris

Return to Earth

1901 | Bengal

Mnemonic Device

c. 600 BC | Greece

False Promises

c. 390 BC | Athens

Scientific Methods

c. 1915 | Nepenthe

Class Differences

1909 | Radchester

Stand to Reason

c. 1595 | Navarre

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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