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No Child Left Unmedicated
“This Commission on Mental Health laid out a federal plan that could subject all children to mental health screening in school and during routine physical exams. The clear plan is to use the public...
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Don’t forget your jacket! Why Sudbury Valley School makes sense to me.
When I arrive with A at Sudbury Valley School, I often have try to convince him to put on a jacket before we walk to the school from the parking lot. Depending on the day, it’s a tough sell. But see,...
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Unschooling and interning…
“[D]irect soliciting of fascinating adults is compatible with the unschooling (and, generally, homeschooling) philosophy of “learning from the world” and ignoring arbitrary age barriers. Why, then, do...
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Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning
Math. As a society we worship it, hate it, and fear it. In our schools we force kids to study it (or pretend to study it) for thousands of hours and then we wail about how little they learn. Here, now,...
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Sudbury Valley School – The place reeks of beauty
A great post from Maria West: “Today I was at Sudbury Valley, and all around were flowers, a lilac bush so large and loaded with blossoms it seemed unreal, large vases of flowers in the kitchen and in...
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New to me: HSSSE — The High School Survey of Student Engagement
Excerpts: “Over four years of HSSSE survey administrations, student responses have been very consistent regarding boredom. In a pool of 275,925 students who responded to this question from 2006 to...
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Article 2
The post linked here talks about the types of fear we have in discussing change in schooling: http://www.unschoolingnyc.com/2013/06/26/the-fear-factor/ The problem I have with this is that it I think...
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Article 1
The problem with 180 days of school is that 180 days is 36 full weeks (180/5…. when subtracting school vacation weeks and holidays) so that means 16 weeks are left. And I don’t have 16 weeks of...
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Knowing Something vs Doing Something
Is School Enough? (PBS, coming fall 2013) preview See also: - Tim Draper — “Why don’t schools teach more doing things?” “We don’t teach history, we teach future.” LINK - Seth Godin likes to say a...
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MACS and Common Core
I have been thinking about traditional school and standards lately — it’s in the news a lot. I guess as it always is, but perhaps especially because it’s the beginning of another school year. For...
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