Matinee vs. evening performance?  I’ve been going to the Metropolitan Opera for a long time, but today happened to be the first time I went in the afternoon.  Took my son and his friend, both home from college, and my husband.  Good thing there was no competing football game. Fantastic!  Instead of my usual cat [...]

Too many American schools are failing to serve their students.  And that’s with the professionals in charge.  So maybe it will be a new breed of education chiefs who will inject energy and accountability and innovation back into the classroom.  It hardly matters whether those people come from schools of education or business or journalism!  [...]