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To Want “But LIttle”: Reflections From a Second Grade Classroom
Monthly Archives: February 2013
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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Be Careful What You Wish For: Obama’s Preschool Plan
My TIME.com column today on why little kids need to be little kids (and we should be worried about turning preschool into ‘big school’): Early childhood advocates were elated by Obama’s State of the Union proposal to vastly expand our infrastructure of … Continue reading
Posted in Children/Teens/Young Adults, Erika @ TIME.com
Tagged Children and play, early childhood development, early childhood education, high stakes testing, kindergarten, nursery school, obama state of the union, Obama's preschool proposal, preschool, The Catch-22 of Obama's preschool plan, why children need play
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After the Storm
We’re just digging out from the blizzard and the sky is already doing its gaudy winter thing again. It amazes me how quickly things return to normal. I feel guilty saying that when people died in the storm, including an … Continue reading
Posted in My story
Tagged blizzard of 2013, cambridge, Harvard, kirkland house, memo, winter storm
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White-out
I hope you don’t mind the attitude, but I’m feeling just the teensiest bit triumphantly badass this morning. My Massachusetts pride is partially restored. I remember back when we had real snow, when my dad, in the Blizzard of … Continue reading
Posted in My story
Tagged Blizzard 2013, Blizzard Nemo, blizzard of '78, blizzard of 2013, boston, snow, winter
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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
On Being an Amateur*
*The Surprising Appeal of Doing Things Half-Assed… I ‘ve been pawing through the Betty Crocker Cooky (sic) Book from the 1960s and I want to be clear that this is an irony-free post today. I’m not treading the worn path … Continue reading
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