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After 30 years of watching the public school open classroom where his wife taught, and admiring at a distance the model for learning that had evolved, Tom Valens couldn’t miss the opportunity to film her last class from beginning to end. And so he was there the [...]

Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. is Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts where she has been training early childhood professionals for over twenty-five years. She teaches courses on play, violence prevention, action research and a summer institute on “Media Madness." She leads [...]

Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University and a historian of education. She blogs at dianeravitch.net, a site which has had nearly 3.5 million page views in less than a year. From 1991 to 1993, she was Assistant Secretary of [...]

Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. is Professor of Education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts where she has been training early childhood professionals for over twenty-five years. She teaches courses on play, violence prevention, action research and a summer institute on “Media Madness” She leads an annual service-learning [...]

Author Renée Watson reveals a bit of personal story. She speaks of the importance of reading and how reading at a young age—on her own and with my mother—shaped her relationship with books. “Mom, I’m bored!” I whined. This was something that often came out [...]