Parents
February 2013
Should Schools Teach Students How-to-Code + Lessons Beyond
More concerning is that if we can't portray what is taught in school as compelling, maybe it's not as relevant as we think. Read more
Gifted Student or Test-taker Extraordinaire?
The iconic educator Howard Gardner sends a brilliant Letter . . . Read more
A Response to: Is your child a "Warrior" or "Worrier"?
Why Some Kids Handle Test Pressure and Others . . . Not. Read more
Mother Nature's Child: New Documentary Trailer
Children today spend on average spend less than 40 minutes "outside" Read more
Jon Stewart: Time to have some new voices in education on your show
Gardening, Tools and Too Much Fertilizer Can Burn Sir Ken Robinson Video Below: Teachers are like Gardeners Read more
Legendary Quincy Jones riffs about technology, music, math, creativity, and . . . parenting
" . . .We'd go to executive conferences with Bill Gates and he'd say, 'Alan will you please take over?' . . . " - Quincy Jones Read moreNow, keeping in mind these fourfold interests - interest in conversation, or communication; in inquiry, or finding out things; in making things or construction; and in artistic expression - we may say they are natural resources, the uninvested capital, upon the exercise of which depends the active growth of the child..John Dewey, The School and Society, 1900
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