parenting
Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere
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 … Read more
What do we tell the children?
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 … Read more