This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Surrounded by a group of 10th graders, Alex Asal, a museum educator at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, read aloud from three school lunch menus. She asked the students to …
“Y’all” is pleasant enough on its own, but to hear it more than a dozen times during a ballet class in New York City is a happy find. As in: “I want y’all to move a lot more. If you fall off your pirouette that is ohhh-kay.” That voice, that …
It was 45 seconds too late, but the teacher had a plan. A gunman had just barraged her classroom with an AR-15, killing two students and injuring four others before turning to a classroom across the hall. The bullet-riddled walls were crumbling. Ceiling tiles were falling. If the shooter came …
