T: TV & After-School Programs
Posted April 5th, 2011 by Susan Linn
The much acclaimed Nintendo 3DS promises endless hours of screen-time pleasure—and a load of trouble for parents and children. It provides 3D gaming with no bothersome glasses. Reviews glowingly describe a three dimensional experience that is more real and more compelling than ever before—instead of objects appearing to come at you, the new Nintendo technology [...]
Posted March 28th, 2011 by Homa Tavangar
There is hope for education innovation in the U.S. Earlier this month I had the great honor of joining several hundred people committed to innovation in education in various forms, for the TEDxNYED conference. The speaker roster, folks behind the scenes and participants I met (like Nathan Dudley of the NY Harbor School) truly inspired [...]
Posted March 3rd, 2011 by Cynthia Liu
Press your Senators to oppose HR 1 and keep funding for Head Start, IDEA (special ed funding), STEM education, and women’s and children’s health care paid for and in the budget. Click on our K12NN/POPVOX.com action and make your voice heard before March 18, 2011!
Posted February 16th, 2011 by Donna Norton
Something doesn’t add up. These days you hear a lot of members of Congress saying, “Governments need to budget like families do.” I couldn’t agree more. Every family I know budgets by putting the health, safety, and future of their children first. But what gets me is that some of the same members of Congress [...]
Posted February 14th, 2011 by Tanya Schevitz
Whenever I ponder of the excess of technology in today’s society, I think of a posting on my friend’s Facebook page complaining that her kids were driving her crazy as they waited in line for ice cream. It seemed obvious to me why her kids were acting up–they wanted her to stop the constant mobile [...]
Posted January 19th, 2011 by Cynthia Liu
Education reform: I fervently believe women who are in the schools every day–as parent volunteers, and as teachers–have a great deal to tell policymakers what works and what doesn’t.
What we need is a pointilist approach: steady application of dots of information about how schools are working–or not working–that add up to a big picture. We need it from parents, students, and educators themselves.
Posted December 14th, 2010 by Lisa Harper
I’ve been thinking over at Raising Generation O lately about the Christmas Spirit. About giving, and teaching children about gratitude and charity, but also about fairness, justice, equity–and how these relate to the season’s spirit. At the end of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (the real, unabridged, print version)–spoiler alert–Tiny Tim doesn’t walk. The real [...]
Posted December 6th, 2010 by Lily Eskelsen
Children are dying. A bully is making their lives miserable. A bully is threatening them. Humiliating them. Being mean.
Posted November 17th, 2010 by Lily Eskelsen
I remember when I first started teaching sometime in the late 1800s when one of the moms of one of my 4th graders came to the class to apologize. She had always been The Room Mother for her kids, but this year she was working outside the home, and she was apologizing…
Posted October 25th, 2010 by Lily Eskelsen
Last week the Corporate Model School Reformers issued a manifesto. Like most manifestos, it’s simple and slick … and wrong.
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