By Lee Fang | Originally Published at The Nation. November 16, 2011Under the banner of high-tech progress, corporate lobbyists have rammed through legislation privatizing K-12 education across the country. This article was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. If the national movement [...]
Sir Ken Robinson speaks during the Dalai Lama Center's Educating the Heart Series. He discusses the importance of an education that educates not just the mind, but also the heart. “In any list of what it means to be human, empathy, intuition, imagination and compassion would surely [...]
We want to believe that our children's education resides in the hands of professionals. We place our confidence in our Teachers. Paid pedagogues, we think guide policy. We might never imagine that it is we who entrust our youth to profiteers; yet when confronted with the numbers [...]
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever-younger ages, may backfire. By Alison Gopnik | Originally published at Slate. March 16, 2011 Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading [...]
How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? Now that you know who you are, what do you want to be? And have you traveled very far, far as the eye can see? ~The BeatlesBaby, you might not be a rich man or woman [...]
Once again, Americans are up in arms or perchance, better armed and dangerous. Only little more than a week into 2011, citizens have had to confront their fears, feelings, all at gunpoint. It began on a calm, clear Saturday. In a Safeway Store Tucson parking lot Congresswoman [...]
I share a tale, or two from the 2010-2011 holiday season. For me, the stories ring true today. The topics are, teaching and reaching, learning and growing, in the holiday season.Christmas on the Corner. New Years at the Yield By Betsy L. Angert This year, Christmas and [...]
By Scott Huebner | Originally Published at The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) Volume 39, Issue 2 October 2010 With the increased emphasis on measuring school success primarily through academic outcomes, some might argue that school professionals cannot afford to pay much attention to students’ well-being, [...]
[This is an expanded version of the published article, which appeared in the Washington Post’s Sunday “Outlook” section.] Pour lire cet article en français, cliquer ici. If the subject is kids and how they’re raised, it seems our culture has exactly one story to tell. [...]
