New Athenian Academy

The other day my high schoolers started to jokingly refer to me as their mom… which brought up an interesting dilemma.  What is my role as the teacher?  Am I part mom, part educator?  Or, do I just focus on the academic education of my students? In a way, this dilemma is less of a [...]

A major problem in education is poor communication between the various interested parties. What role are parents expected to play? How should financial supporters influence the process? What responsibilities are left to students? Which objectives do teachers give priority? What are the responsibilities of school administrators? Now here’s the thing… if we ran our companies [...]