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- @THE_BWood what do you object to? Free speech in an open society? See follow up: erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 2 days ago
- @BorobodurA what do you object to? Criticism in an open society? See follow up: erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 2 days ago
- @DavidBSalva yes private. And open to criticism like anything else in our free society. See follow up erikachristakis.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/are… 2 days ago
- Are The Boy Scouts Knuckling Under? wp.me/p2gSp7-Qp 2 days ago
- @SamJolman thanks. Nice post. 2 days ago
To Want “But LIttle”: Reflections From a Second Grade Classroom
Tag Archives: child development
Preschool Paradox II
This is a version of my Preschool Paradox which I’ve posted at WBUR’s new online magazine, Cognoscenti. It’s a bit more “suitable for work” than my earlier screedy blog iteration. I’ve just started as a contributor at Cognoscenti and it’s got some good voices … Continue reading
The Preschool Paradox
People keep asking why we should expand subsidized preschool when kids from Finland don’t start school until age seven and seem to turn out pretty damned functional. I agree it’s a puzzle. How can preschool be the best investment a … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults
Tagged academic vs. play-based preschool, child development, developmentally appropriate education, developmentally appropriate practice, early childhood education, environment as curriculum, finland education, high quality preschool education, obama's preschool plan, pre-k, preschool, quality early childhood education, young children
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Do Teachers Discriminate Against Boys?
Today’s TIME.com for you: Worries about the declining academic performance of boys, a topic of increasing alarm this past decade, have intensified recently. It seems that boys are being judged both unduly harshly and leniently at school. A new study on gender disparities … Continue reading
Constructive Paranoia
I’ve been reading a new book called The World Until Yesterday, by Jared Diamond (the Guns, Germs, and Steel guy), about what we can learn from ‘ancestral’ (i.e. hunter-gatherer) societies. He’s pretty clear about the things we might not wish to … Continue reading
Over-thinking Sesame Street
This is my TIME.com column today, Adults Read Too Much Into “Sesame Street,” about the bizarre adult conflation of Elmo/Kevin Clash and what it says about how we see children: Many adults who have been tracking the story about Elmo-creator Kevin … Continue reading
