Click for a better view Pictures of some of the work behind the magnificent display in the lobby. The Day of the Dead by the 5th and 6th grades.
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The View from the Top
Among the many excellent things about working at Poughkeepsie Day School and living in the mid-Hudson Valley is that you are never far from so many places of great natural beauty. It’s fall and the trees are ablaze with color. Here is the view east from the top of the fire tower on Stissing mountain last Saturday. The water is…
Mayhem, Mischief and Malice: The World Wild Web
From UniversityAffairs in Canada comes this technology tale of mayhem, menace, mischief and malice: The Wild Web. There’s even a really scary picture to go with the now fairly familiar story of social networking sites and web 2.0 users run amok. It’s important to think about these things because they are not going away. The article is about the impact…
One Game: Many Goals
A golden afternoon, a chilly wind and a great game of soccer with Storm King. Both teams played well. Click on the collage for a bigger view.
College Paying Admitted Students to Re-Take the SAT: Say what??
Some colleges are paying members of the freshman class to retake the SAT’s. Administrators claimed that they were merely giving admitted students a chance to burnish their records and win so-called merit scholarships. But it seems more likely that Baylor’s marketing team was trying to drive up the school’s test scores — and move it up in college rankings, like…
Iconic Images
Student art work: Iconic images from Kenyon House. Click the pic for a bigger view.
Outdoors at Lunchtime
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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 to stop using common sense.…
Give Joy a Chance: An 11-Step Program
It’s the 21st century. So what happens when we shut children down and disconnect them from wonder, creativity, curiosity and natural love of learning? The disengagement that is epidemic in high school starts much earlier. And if we actually believe in that cliche about the importance of lifetime learning then it must take joyful root in school. And when it…
A Digital Crossroads
Digital kids in a digital world. What’s to worry about? Here is a short interview with John Palfrey author of Born Digital. Hear him in person at PDS on November 3rd. (NYSAIS on Tuesday November 4th.)
Online People are Real: Give Them a Break
There’s research that suggests strongly that real-world bullying strongly predicts cyberbullying and the parallels in behavior both suggest that cyberbullying may not actually be a distinct phenomenon. “These findings further underscore the continuity between adolescents’ social worlds in school and online,” they conclude. And then some good advice for all of us from the Squidoo blog People online are real…
Focus on the SAT
Cyril E. Power The Exam Room Study of Standardized Admissions Tests Is Big Draw at College Conference – article in Monday’s NYTimes and College panel calls for less focus on SAT’s I’m looking forward to hearing more from the PDS college guidance team who were at the conference in Seattle last week.