Wendy Shalit is an author and cultural commentator known for her writings on modesty, feminism, and contemporary culture. She gained prominence with her 1999 book *A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue*. She contributed essays to The Weekly Standard in 1996 exploring cultural values and the state of girlhood in modern society.
It has been more than a week since the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who was trying to become what her daddy and mommy wanted her to become: the youngest pilot ever to complete a cross-country flight. We have since learned several things about the crash itself. First, though fractures to…
HOW is it that kids in Communist China don't seem to have time for much of anything but reading, writing, and arithmetic, while we Americans are the ones with the luxury of exploring the communal classroom, the intricacies of self-esteem training, and the blessings of outcomes-based education?