Magazine 10/07/2018 - The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe Magazine | October 6, 2018

Teacher Nancy Barile with some of her students from Revere High School. — Webb Chappell for the Boston Globe

The Education Issue

How ‘The Walking Dead’ helps Revere High School make the grade

Revere adopted a method more common to affluent private schools, and boosted academic performance. Now it is evangelizing the technique. By Nick Chiles

Education Issue | Magazine

Twenty percent of home-schooled kids are getting ‘unschooled.’ What’s that?

The resource centers are popping up around Boston, around the idea that children should get to choose what they learn. By Michael Blanding

I want safe schools. But I don’t want schools that feel like prisons.

Schools need to meet certain security standards. But unobtrusive technology is the better choice. By Meaghan O’Neill

Elliot Haney

Kevin Dua in the hallway at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. City Year helped him become a teacher, and now he’s giving back by establishing a scholarship fund to help others do the same.

City Year’s focus on education made a difference for these people

Meet five people who turned their City Year experience into jobs where they help educate others. By Sandra Miller

Miss Conduct

Advice: My friend says offensive things. How can I make her stop?

Love Letters

All her boyfriend’s BFFs are women he’s had flings with

Dinner with Cupid

Blind date: ‘He reminded me of a golden retriever’

Will his sunny nature win him an enthusiastic thumbs up?

Cooking | Magazine

Recipes: Soup, salad, and pasta — a Northern Italian menu for fall

Chestnut-apple soup, cabbage salad with crispy prosciutto, and a spinach and cheese infused pasta.

Your Week Ahead

Five things to do around Boston, Oct. 8-14

Afterglow @OBERON, Boston Book Festival, “We Will Not Be Silent,” and more.

Style Watch

Fashion spotting at the Esplanade Association’s Moondance Gala

The formal looks were as striking as the setting.

On The Block

For sale: Homes with built-ins for bibliophiles

The Boston Book Festival is approaching, and there’s always room for a new novel when your walls double as bookcases.

images from adobe stock; globe staff illustration

Connections | Magazine

Dad, me, and a love of reading

He shopped for them on his lunch break, and brought them home to expand my horizons.

Comments

Letters to the editor of the Boston Globe Magazine

An essay on the stresses of summer has readers weighing in.

Good reads

Globe Magazine

Motherhood brings the most dramatic brain changes of a woman’s life

So why does prenatal care ignore the topic altogether?

Bostonians of the Year

Globe Magazine

2017 Bostonian of the Year (and 8 inspiring honorable mentions)

Dr. Ann McKee’s work may change football forever. Plus, intrepid teens, dissenting women, caring congregations, visionary scientists, and other engaged citizens making Boston stand out.