Latest and Greatest News Roundup

- More discourse on recess (or lack thereof). I really understand why with precious recess time slipping away, schools are seeking to give more structure to students' physical movement. But with a total loss of unstructured time, what are the risks for today's students? Read the original article here and then some of the discussion here.

- All-new Shel Silverstein Poetry Collection is coming in 2011! He apparently wrote many, many more poems he edited out of his collections....get excited! Read about it here.

- Junk science or exciting, innovative help for kids? I'm unsure, check it out for yourself.

- This AMAZING radiolab story is a must--listen here. It's all about how children (very young infants, actually) think in logarithms. In other words, humans innately recognize more (the basis of logarithms.) Babies can tell the difference between 1 and 2, 8 and 16. Of course, 7 and 8--the difference there is fuzzier. Fascinating stuff about how our brains --and very young children's--is actually wired for math.

- The Daily Show does it better than anyone else--watch more about how the Texas curriculum committee is going to affect American education.

Great stuff...

Check out this Radiolab report on how young children think in logarithms--check it out here!

This Atlanta Journal-Constitution blog post advocates for eliminating the senior year of high school and instead putting the money into early childhood. I am not sure about the throwing 17-year-olds into the world, but huge vote of confidence for us!

Charter school arguments in NYC here.

This article gives teachers like me nightmares. Glad all is safe and sound.

Framing Childhood

I am not a parent, but I related to the obsessive collection of photography as the parents in this article. My co-teacher and I love our photos! Check out the article here.