joe | January 25, 2011
Our entire set of ideas about education needs to be revamped to cover the full spectrums of age, subject, approach and outcome. http://abcnews.go.com/US/article/public-boarding-school-reaps-great-success/story?id=10828451 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/22/opinion/meyer/main625288.shtml
joe | January 25, 2011
I are not talking about hard labor for children here, at least not in the early years, and later, not for extended periods. Working in a garden or on a farm, or digging a hole is something to grow into, not thrust upon on us when we have our 18th birthday, and suddenly become “adult”.
joe | January 25, 2011
We need to identify at risk situations at the earliest possible point. Preventing problems is always preferable to trying to fix them after the fact. We already have mountains of data about the problems; they have been with us for a long time. We have not demonstrated we have the will to prevent and to […]