We live less than 1/2 a mile and two tiny streets away from the 9 year old’s school and she asked if it would be OK for her to walk to school on her own. I asked The Google what … Continue reading →

Did your teachers leave those kids alone? Mine didn’t. Continue reading →

Our party was on the front page of every national newspaper. Continue reading →

I hope it’s not bad taste to post a story about good versus bad teachers on a day when Santa Clara laid off 1000 teachers. Brooks: We’ve spent years working on ways to restructure schools, but what matters most is … Continue reading →

Roger Ebert has written a powerful, meandering essay about shame. Continue reading →

The sweet spot for Alan Kay’s glorious Squeak seems to be kids who find joy in creating and exploring. Continue reading →

[Here’s a post that I started about 2 years ago and probably will never finish – which is a shame because it would’ve been a good one….] I always look forward to the Science Fair because … …. rant about … Continue reading →

Dylan had to make a castle for school and made Leeds Castle which is just up the road from where my sister lives. If you look closely, you can see the Frenchman in the tower about to fetchez la vache … Continue reading →

My lovely wife sent me this: Mr. Whitson taught sixth-grade science. On the first day of class, he gave us a lecture about a creature called the cattywampus, an ill-adapted nocturnal animal that was wiped out during the Ice Age. … Continue reading →

When I was at grammar school, I used to rank the subjects according to how ‘like maths‘ they were. We were taught chemistry, physics and biology as separate subjects and, while I enjoyed all the sciences, I enjoyed physics the … Continue reading →