Blame our test-prep-crazed schools and overscheduled culture, sez the writer below. Amen and amen.
Struggling School-Age Boys
A new study says parents are right to worry about their sons.
Peg Tyre
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 1:10 PM ET Sep 8, 2008
Every other week it seems a new study comes out that adds to our already-formidable arsenal of parental worries. But even by […]
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Resigns, Pleads, Pays Fine, Loses Law License, Will Do Time
Tami Winfrey Harris of WhatTamiSaid is the blogger I want to be when I grow up. Her analysis and perspectives on this election manage to be informative, insightful, *and* heartfelt. You know, average folk can’t do all of that. (Tami is also the editor of AntiRacistParent.com). Here’s a recent taste of Tami:
What We Deserve (A […]
He’s skipping the Convention.
As an elementary school kid growing up in the late ’70s, the idea of getting sent to the principal’s office and getting paddled was downright terrifying to me. I didn’t have to worry, though, because I was the quintessential Good Girl/Teacher’s Pet. Other kids, however, didn’t fare as well. It seems paddling is still practiced […]
G8 leaders enjoy 18-course banquet as they discuss how to solve global food crisis!
(hat tip to TAO, my brother from another mother)
I went out on a first (and last) date once with a cop. It was an online thing, and based on his picture, I wasn’t all that enthused. But I went…and then interacting with him face to face, I was even less enthused.
It wasn’t just that I wasn’t attracted to him. There was also the […]
Interesting NYT article on how Clinton supporters are coming around…slowly.
Here’s a quote from the litterbox article:
The hard-core Hillary supporters have certainly not yet achieved total unification bliss. Perhaps it’s just that their heroine hasn’t had a chance yet to reprogram each one individually. (“Repeat after me: ‘This will all work out.’ And let me hear […]
Seems not everyone is a Kara Walker fan…
No Child Left Behind: Doomed to Fail?
…Add to the mix the fact that much of the promised funding failed to materialize and many early critics insisted that No Child Left Behind was nothing more than a cynical plan to destroy American faith in public education and open the way to vouchers and school choice.
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