DEAR WORD COURT: When I was in high school, a teacher who was a grammar Nazi made a fuss about "principal" and "principle." She definitely impressed on me that there's a difference between the two ...

DEAR WORD COURT: When I was in high school, some years ago, a teacher who was a grammar Nazi made a fuss about "principal" and "principle." She definitely impressed on me that there's a difference ...

A few weeks ago, my friend John and I treated our three 17-year-olds to a boys’ night out. We started off at Bazbeaux downtown, inhaling guy pizza (read: pepperoni and sausage) and dissecting the big ...

The president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools (JAPSS), Linvern Wright, has pushed back against ...

One summer day in 1948 William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train ...

“Sure, you’d get the occasional seventh-grader thrown in a garbage can, but never anything serious .” Thus opined Joanne Roque, a 1992 graduate of Hunter College High, recalling the Upper East Side ...

For Kay (April Paul), the rookie teacher in Next Act Theatre's "Principal Principle," the English department's communal office is a daily seminar in two required subjects: How to teach kids in a ...

Without establishing the correct static fill pressure, you are potentially spending time troubleshooting problems that aren’t there. The contractor started smiling as the homeowner and I were talking ...

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Commitment, it too often seems these days, has become something of a quaint word and a malleable concept. Once it meant a promise not easily undone. Now, pro athletes who’ve signed lucrative contracts ...