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This Memoir is about ten years in the life of the author, from age 6 to age 16. Those years are not seen through the filter of Freudian complexes. Nor is childhood seen through the prism of John Dewey's instrumentalism where one happily accommodates to one's place in a godless, secular, humanist, industrial society. Nor is his childhood heroic like that of Helen Keller. It is about his mother's isolation and his bitterness towards her, his father's macho cynicism, his competitive bright schoolmates, and his persecution at the hands of a son of Nazi German immigrants. The author's story is...

Conversations about education are often vacuous. The "body of knowledge" for each subject should come back to the fore as the key to a meaningful education and not merely statistics about graduation rates, passing rates on standardized tests, and the implementation of tablets, smart boards, and other software innovations. We also need to restore prayer in the schools, family values, and patriotism (where the inspirational aspects of the U.S.A. and Western civilization are placed front and center rather than themes of oppression and victimization). With Common Core State sic] Standards, we...

Are comics just storyboards for films that would be too expensive to ever actually commit to celluloid? Are movies just comics with added motion? These two media have become more closely tied in recent years, thanks to a bevy of comic-book adaptations, and seem naturally related. Both are comprised of visual storytelling techniques that would seem readily compatible, but are they really that similar? MOVING PANELS: TRANSLATING COMICS TO FILM digs into this issue, analyzing through careful examination of aesthetics just how similar and dissimilar the two media are. By looking at films and...