About Carl Bosch

Carl Bosch has appeared in publications as varied as the New York Times and Cricket magazine. His books for children have sold over 60,000 copies. An educator for 38 years (soon coming to an end) he's now working on storytelling through MouseMuse Productions and performing marriage ceremonies as a Justice of the Peace.

Geometry of Love

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Carl Bosch’s love poem celebrates marriage as “two parallel lines; same trajectory, same destination.”

Madness

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In the near future, Carl Bosch imagines one rural Pennsylvania school district instituting gun training for its teachers. What’s next?

Our Broken Ankle

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After a vacation injury sidelines Carl’s wife, both the Bosches would prefer to explain with a wild tale of fast living.

55 Years in School: And the Last

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“This teaching thing is an art as well as a science.” Carl Bosch on the art, science, and miracle of learning.

Graduation Honesty

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By the time you’re in high school, your childhood is behind you, and your current performance is a powerful predictor of adult success.

55 Years in School: One Million Five Hundred Thousand

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A Holocaust exhibit in The Hall of Tolerance is one way Carl Bosch’s school is changing the world one student at a time.

55 Years in School: And So It Stands

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Can you miss a building almost as much as the people within? Perhaps.

Why Poetry for Kids?

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A child’s education should include the tools to convey sentiments and emotion, says Carl Bosch. The Good Men Project’s Education columnist on the importance of poetry to kids today.

55 Years in School: Best for the Best

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Would tailoring classrooms to different learning levels do more for kids in school?

55 Years in School: Pondering the Pencil Grip

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What does the way a student grips a pencil tell us about education?

55 Years in School: Changing Guard

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Carl Bosch contemplates the school kids of the upcoming generation that he won’t know.

55 Years in School: Beyond the Beltway, A 60 hour field trip

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Carl Bosch reflects on his recent field trip to our nation’s capital with a host of 8th graders.

Panoramic Pupils

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Sleepy students huddling together for a group photo have no idea just how close to their futures they really are.

Lunchroom Logistics

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Inside school cafeterias are complex societies full of a hyper-awareness of social status, in which popularity is traded like stock.

Dress Code Crazy

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Are dress codes and school uniforms old-fashioned?

55 Years in School: Teachers Get the Short Straw During Evaluation

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Want to evaluate teachers by student achievement? Fine, but we have to make it fair.