“Come on!” a voice hollered from the doorway. “It’s dark outside, and it’s not safe to keep riding. That bike will still be there in the morning. Come inside!”
“Once more down the street, Mom. I’ll be right back!”
“Junior, get inside right now…” But he was already halfway down the street, [...]
“Get out of here. Don’t you know you’re in the way?”
The children scattered, but they didn’t go far. Their faces began to reappear from behind their hiding places. A bit more cautiously this time, they went back to their game of tag. Scurrying youngsters, laughing and bumping into everything - that [...]
The summary of the video, as posted on TED.com, is this:
Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
I love that idea, and I hope [...]
According to an LA Times editorial, the College Board - the organization that makes and administers the PSAT and SAT - will soon release a new test designed to give to younger students. What a stupendous idea: with all of the negative opinions of the PSAT and the SAT, and the dubious proof that they [...]
Watching the length of innocence in children decline saddens me, for that is the sweetest time in life and it is being made shorter and shorter.
Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an article by Dan Slater on the efforts of schools to ban questionable clothing. Slater writes,
Last month, the Aurora Frontier K-8 School in Aurora, [...]
