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Big City - A School That Cost $20,000 Not to Go To - NYTimes.com

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:39:19 -0000

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Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:19:45 -0000

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The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.

Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990

in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,

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Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:17:45 -0000

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I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.

In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts

Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.

New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.

rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.

Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.

Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.

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Posted by: sarahhanawald

Top News - Tech encourages students' social skills

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:01:01 -0000

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Well-integrated technology opens social networks for students and allows children to develop key social skills, according to two recent studies conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Independent School Educators Network

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:38:36 -0000

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These floating sticky notes are interesting when you're sharing them with a group. Does anyone else have trouble seeing embedded content on this page at school? I think it is my school firewall that is blocking some of the embedded items. At home, I see it all fine. I added the "weekly feature" item on 4-27-08, because I was so struck by that stack of slides from David Truss. posted by demetri

This network is a forum for discussing education and is a laboratory for experimenting with social-educational networking, blogging, wikis, social bookmarking, and multimedia. Educators and students are encouraged to participate and contribute to this virtual community.

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NAIS - National Association of Independent Schools

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:28:21 -0000

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Articles - Independent School Education Head Views

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:39:17 -0000

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