How We’re Priming Some Kids For College — And Others… "On the path that American children travel to adulthood, two institutions oversee the journey. The first is the…
Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm Research reveals negative effects of academic preschools and kindergartens Many preschool and kindergarten…
The Most Basic Freedom Is Freedom To Quit "Schools will become moral institutions only when children are free to quit." - Peter Gray, PhD, author of Free To…
Why I Laughed When My Son Flunked His Midterm I’m tired. Tired of seeing how so many parents in our culture mess their kids up in two words: unhealthy…
Spread The Word: Feb 4 Is Global School Play Day Children are designed, by nature, to spend huge amounts of time playing freely. That's how they develop social,…
Industrial Vs Primal Intelligence: What We Are Missing Our nomadic cousins have more receptive smarts... Through the descriptive, observational works of others, I’ve…
Malala’s Nobel Prize And The Question Of Children’s Rights Photo: Google Images Labeled for Reuse Listen to Peter Gray, PhD, discuss his book, Free To Learn: Why…
Student Debt And Regret On The Path To Sustainable Living On June 18th, 1999, while on a camping trip, Bob and I were hiking through Asticou Terraces on Northeast Harbor in…
School Shootings And Community Healing: The Story of the… Editor's Note: This week there was, yet again, another school shooting, the 74th since Sandy Hook…
Playing at School: More Important Than We Thought? The elimination of recess from many elementary schools may be detrimental.