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A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.

BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…

11 years ago

The Perils of Education

What is more discouraging in history than the way in which, again and again, the human spirit is freed from…

12 years ago

The IBM Selectric Typewriter and Kenyon House: “You must have been drunk!”

Cross-posted from Josie's Blog Did you know that Poughkeepsie Day School now has a Fab Lab? It's short for fabrication…

12 years ago

Beneath the Surface: The Hokey-Pokey and Jump Jim Joe

Most Wednesday mornings the lower school assembles in the Chapman Room and parents are welcome.  It’s usually a showcase for…

12 years ago

Learning to Live (then going home for tea)

"So the children of a democracy learn to take their place in the world of tomorrow." The British Council has…

13 years ago

A Modern Village School: Christmas 1944

Wonderful pictures of what looks like a creative classroom in a pre-Plowden primary school. Look at the desk arrangements. From…

13 years ago

The Price

Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…

14 years ago

Connections: How good ideas happen to good minds

The coffee houses of the Enlightenment; the  Paris salons of Modernism  - two examples of the spaces conducive to innovation…

14 years ago

More Educator Luddites Please

Part two of:  The Age of Bricolage: School in the Change Blender: Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction…

14 years ago

The wild front ear

If blogging is supposed to have an element of timeliness then  I have given up on that ideal.  After all…

15 years ago

The Extra Mile

The Art History class took off for Italy last week. It's well over 4,000 miles from Poughkeepsie to Zurich and…

15 years ago

Hoover that google

With google now declared the word of the decade, tweet the word of the year and unfriend now officially in…

15 years ago

Show an Affirming Flame: It’s Not The Real World and That’s a Good Thing

On the last day of the year, time to show an affirming flame as another low dishonest decade ends. I’ll…

15 years ago

Tradition and change

From the Poughkeepsie New Yorker (Over 78,000 Read-Round-the-Clock 35 Cents Weekly) December 1941 came this news item about Poughkeepsie Day…

15 years ago

School of the Past: School of the Future

This summer I visited  the quite wonderful Hancock Shaker Village. It's where in craft and design, form meets function with…

15 years ago