Just as the handmade, home-farmed foodie movement is transforming how consumers view processed food, is education's equivalent-Waldorf-style schooling that favors hands-on art and personal exploration while shunning textbooks and technology-just what school reform needs?
The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard.
But the school's chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found. No screens at all. They are not allowed in the classroom, and the school even frowns on their use at home.