childhood

“Knowledge not purchased by the loss of power!”

Children: How will they ever know who they are? The question is the last line of  "The Things we Steal…

14 years ago

Childhood Is Another Country: Children Are Not Miniature Adults

Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…

14 years ago

Childhood has Changed: Playtime is Over

Here's an article to read by David Elkind in the NYTimes Playtime is Over It's an important topic. It's an…

15 years ago

“I know you are into technology …”

Well – yes – I suppose I am, and I always have been. As I child I haunted the school…

15 years ago

State of Play

So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…

15 years ago

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…

15 years ago

Setting your socks on fire

Looking through old PDS school photos  – pictures of children working with tools, wading waist deep in muddy ponds and…

15 years ago

Kids need recess

School recess improves behavior - from the NYTimes. Anyone surprised?

16 years ago

“…larnin’.” It’s the key that opens all doors.”

William Woodruff died this week. He  was a professor of world history best known perhaps for his autobiographical works. He discovered a love…

16 years ago

Saving Our Children from NDD

I've written on this topic before but this is a wonderful blog post from New Zealand by Bruce Hammonds' Leading and Learning…

16 years ago

School Reports: The Stories Behind the Numbers

I've done a deal of packing and moving and unpacking in the last couple of years. And amid all the…

16 years ago

Wintry mix

There's a good article in the local paper on the inexact science of school weather closing. Our recent spell of…

17 years ago

Voice activated pencils: “The school we’d like”

A school in a giant submarine with waterproof maps of the underwater  world. Private helicopters to fly children to France…

17 years ago

The School that I’d Like

Back in 1967 – the Observer newspaper in the UK organized an opportunity for children to write on the subject:…

17 years ago

W is for …

This picture has a dollop of peanut butter on one edge, a smear of grape jelly on the other, and…

18 years ago