Jerald McNair

I remember the days when the only thing students worried about in school was getting good grades, and when there was a healthy supply of candidates wanting to become teachers....

As an educator, I have talked to far too many students who have lived less than 30 miles from downtown Chicago but have never visited. I've asked myself: Do they...

When I was young, I couldn't wait for the grass to grow so I could take my lawn mower out and cut some of my neighbors' yards. The days it...

This is the first time members of Generation Z are seeing what war really looks like. They are the demographic cohort ranging in age from 10 to 25. Thanks to...

We face an educational reckoning if steps are not taken to address the teacher shortage in the United States. But how can we attract teachers when education has become so...

While I was talking to a group of young people about their future, I asked them: What do you want to be when you grow up? I was somewhat taken...

I recall the days when having a fistfight didn't mean your life had to end. In the neighborhood where I grew up, an occasional fight wasn't uncommon. Sometimes it started...

What should parents think about the shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan, where police say 15-year-old Ethan Crumbley fatally shot four students and wounded seven others? Safety is already...

Remember rock-paper-scissors? When I was young, we used this game to settle disputes or simply as a way to have fun. The scissors cut the paper, the rock smashed the...