Author Archives: Sara Bennett

I just finished reading Let My Children Work, by John Blessington, who I was lucky enough to have lunch with several weeks ago. Blessington, the one-time head of the Whitby School in Greenwich, Connecticut–a school that revived the Montessori method in the United States–wrote Let My Children Work in 1974. (It was re-issued in 1999.)Continue reading “Let My Children Work”

In an advice column in The Jackson Hole Star Tribune, Dr. Yvonne Fournier responds to a parent who is concerned about the homework overload her child gets at a “good” school. Dr. Fournier notes, In many cases, the “good” schools have given students and their families a one-size-fits-all definition that makes “good education” synonymous withContinue reading “Advice Columnist Suggests Parents Define What They Want for Their Children’s Education”

I always wished Alfie Kohn’s book, The Homework Myth, had been written before The Case Against Homework, because his is a terrific resource, especially if you’re interested in how homework research has been conducted and what it actually says. I’ve read plenty of interviews with him over the last several months, all of which I’veContinue reading “Alfie Kohn Distilled”

You can listen to Denise Clark Pope, the founder of Stressed Out Students at Stanford University and the author of Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed-Out, Materialistic, and Miseducated Students, on the podcast of Stan Goldberg at srdad.com. Part 2 of the podcast will be next week so be sure toContinue reading “Podcaster Interviews Denise Clark Pope, founder of Stressed Out Students”