Tag: parenting

Education, RattleBag and Rhubarb

Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere

Josie Holford / November 21, 2009

A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a world gone mad with narrow definitions of achievement and success. Test prep for pre-school no less. And a real moneymaker for the lucrative (and unregulated) test prep industry. Tips for the Admissions test – to Kindergarten “Kayla Rosenblum sat upright…

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Education, RattleBag and Rhubarb

What do we tell the children?

Josie Holford / October 12, 2008

Paul Hoppe I was very taken by this strip in the Styles section of the NYTimes Megan at the Mall. It was a wonderful captured moment about peer pressure, teen angst, social cruelty and about saving face. And the great desire not to say, do or wear anything foolish plus the general inability of parents to stop using common sense.…

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