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Ben Kestner's Blog. October 1, 2012. Http:/ www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/3-new-guidelines-for-healthy-homework/2012/06/25/gJQAFcV30V blog.html. Link to Article from Washington Post. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). UK Primary Schools on Right Track. Avid re...
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: June 2013
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Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools. Kid-Friendly schools are schools that put kids and their needs first. Friday, June 28, 2013. From a comment by Chris on his blog, A Blog About School. FedUpMom - I hear you. It's easy to imagine some aspects of "student-centered" education (for example, some efforts at "project-based learning") being an utter waste of students' time. In my opinion, it's easy to imagine aspects of old-fashioned ("sage on the stage"? Education being a total waste of time, too. The PREP c...
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Parenting is Political: Too Much Homework, Part 3
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015. Too Much Homework, Part 3. It's "summative" season at my kids' school—the period between March break and final exams when teachers assign labour-intensive final projects that count for a substantial chunk of the final grade. These projects are all due around the same time—because we wouldn't want kids to enjoy the warmer weather too. A perfect time, then, for me to resume the sorry saga of my family's fight against excessive homework. The trustee responded quickly. She seemed...
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Parenting is Political: October 2014
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Friday, October 24, 2014. The Debate about Digital Literacy: Moral Panics, Contradictions and Assumptions. The following is an edited version of comments I made as a participant on a "Digital Literacy" panel at the recent "Understanding Media Now" conference, hosted by the. Association for Media Literacy. We’ve been encouraged to be provocative here, so to that end,. It seems to me that the urgency surrounding this question is. This metaphor has been rightly criticized for lacking explanatory power and f...
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Parenting is Political: Too Much F***ing Homework, Part 2
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Sunday, February 1, 2015. Too Much F* *ing Homework, Part 2. A project for which enough class or library time was allotted, nor was it designed as an in-school project, as E's teacher's admonishment that kids had better work on it over the holidays ( contra. The homework policy) makes clear. On paper, it may appear reasonable and doable (though even that is disputable), but the reality for the students actually carrying out the assignment. February 2, 2015 at 8:31 AM. It is unfortunate there seems to be ...
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The Case Against Homework
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Hardcover: U.S. $24.95 / $30.00 CAN. Get the Quicktime Player. Sara and Nancy discuss the issue on WOR Radio 710 with Donna Hanover and Joe Bartlett. Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabularyespecially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? The Case Against Homework. Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched,. The Case Against Homework. Bennett...
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Parenting is Political: March 2015
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Sunday, March 1, 2015. I've heard talk of the "pearl-clutchers" who object to the sex-ed portion of the new Ontario Health and Physical Education curriculum. But I've never met any. My suspicion is that, apart from a handful of people belonging to fringe religious groups (such as the small group that gathered to protest at Queen's Park on last Tuesday), no one really objects to this update. Why? As I tweeted on the day the curriculum was released:. 8212; StepfordTO (@stepfordTO) February 23, 2015. By a B...
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Parenting is Political: There’s Too Much F***ing Homework, Part 1
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Sunday, January 18, 2015. There’s Too Much F* *ing Homework, Part 1. The meeting began courteously enough, with me enumerating the ways in which we thought the girls’ workload in the two weeks following Christmas break was not only unreasonable and developmentally-inappropriate, but also contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the Toronto District School Board’s homework policy. This policy, about which I've written and tweeted at length (see this. There’s too much fucking homework! The schools do ...
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Parenting is Political: June 2013
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. The New K-8 Ontario Sex Ed Curriculum: Too Far or Not Far Enough? Last month the Toronto District School Board suspended a middle school teacher for displaying a sexually explicit safe-sex poster in his Grade 7 and 8 classroom. The board has since overturned the suspension, but the media interest in this case. The problem with this older sex ed program is that it is . . . well, old. It was conceived before widespread Internet access, thus before Facebook, Twitter, ...In the Grade ...
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...the uncensored mind of Patrick M: May 2010
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Monday, May 17, 2010. Leave them at the park. I think this is going to be the first official crosspost subject between my two blogs (I'll assume you've read the SPD post first, if not, click here next. Ultimately, this post is an advertisement for:. MAY 22: “TAKE OUR CHILDREN TO THE PARK…AND LEAVE THEM THERE DAY”. Free-Range Kids is officially declaring Saturday, May 22 — the weekend before Memorial Day– the very first, “Take Our Children to the Park… And Leave Them There Day.". Considering I just had to...
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