High school students will soon take part in a more than 160-year-old tradition in American education: receiving yearbooks at the end of the school year.
In an era of high-speed ephemeral images and social media, some may see high school yearbooks as outdated. But high school and college students have told me that they found it meaningful to look through their yearbooks and inscribe their classmates’ books with personal messages, poems, jokes or simply their signatures.
