“April is child abuse prevention month,” proclaims Fritzwire, a no-nonsense e-bulletin that arrives daily with policy-related updates from the nation’s capitol.
You wouldn’t know it here in New York City. Recently, I listened to one of the many sad stories circulating, online and off, around the precincts of the public schools, whose students from third through [... click post title to read more ...]
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I started the new year re-reading David Kirp’s Kids First, an immodest proposal for changing children’s trajectories in our dear U.S. of A., a country that pays lip service to mother, apple pie, and family values, but doesn’t walk the talk. As I glided through his chapters, with their vivid descriptions of early learning settings and [... click post title to read more ...] Print This Post
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Yesterday, I happened upon the latest blog post of Amanda Ripley, an up-and-coming edu-pundit who recently changed focus from how the brain works under extreme duress to how other countries “build” smarter kids. “Reality Distortion Field,” is a frontal assault on Diane Ravitch and others who declare poverty “a problem so intractable that schools cannot be [... click post title to read more ...] Print This Post
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