“Passions aren’t ‘found,’ they’re developed.” That’s what Carol Dweck and Greg Walton of Stanford argue in a recent Atlantic article by Olga Khazan. We’ve been slow to repost this article because we wanted to make sure we responded to it appropriately. And…
read moreNow that the school year is winding down, many parents and their children are shifting their focus to a wide variety of camps to fill up the summer calendar. Some parents simply need daycare for their children when school is out. Others…
read moreWe previously pointed out that the first step to ending school bullying was to end age segregation.[1] The second step is to eliminate competition and grades. The most overt (and odious) function of schooling is a sorting function. Edward Thorndike, the father…
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