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An article in the March, 2007, issue of Wired magazine titled, “The World Needs More Rebels Like Einstein,” states, “At a time when the U.S., worried about competition from China, is again emphasizing math and science education, Einstein’s genius reminds us that a society’s competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multiplication or periodic tablesContinue reading “How Would Einstein Have Fared in Today’s Schools?”

Here’s a great radio interview with Etta Kralovec, co-author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning. How anyone could not eliminate homework after listening to her speak is beyond me. I interviewed Kralovec for The Case Against Homework and, since that time, we’ve had numerous conversations about homework.Continue reading “Radio Interview with Etta Kralovec”

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”

According to an article in the Bethesda, Maryland, Walt Whitman High School newspaper, of the 500 Whitman students surveyed, 70 percent admitted to cheating on a test, and 95 percent admitted to copying homework. One of the students is quoted as saying, “I consider copying homework to be cheating yourself, but I do not considerContinue reading “High School Students Admit they Cheat to Get Their Homework Completed”

Here’s a wonderful interview conducted by Diane Rehm with David Elkind, author of the new book, The Power of Play. It’s 50 minutes long and definitely worth listening to.

Click here to sign on to a petition calling for the dismantling of the No Child Left Behind Act. You can also share your own comments about NCLB and learn about anti-testing groups around the country.