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Dutch, Reformed: And Please Tell Me You Burned the Books, Too
Guess who's confiscating books at OU?
Nina Munk on Hard Times at Harvard | vanityfair.com
How the smartest people on the planet messed up the management of their massive endowment by playing the same stupid financial games as everyone else.
Disney: Hegemonic enemy of queer pedagogy - Crunchy Con
The sad fact is that crazy ideas like these from the academy find their ways into our public schools:
"Queer pedagogy is primarily about disrupting and destabilising the cultural binaries male-female, sex-gender, heterosexual-homosexual explicit or implicit in these normalising discourses that operate to constitute and perpetuate artificial hierarchical relations of power between their constructed polarised opposites."
From the same report: "Interestingly, a close friend gave her six-year-old niece a Barbie to add to her extensive collection. This Barbie was different, many hours were spent 'queering' Barbie up.... Barbie's hair was cut short, she had several tattoos, a nose and nipple ring, black leather clothes, and so on. Despite all the effort put into this performance, this 'Queer Barbie' lasted less than a week--she was found defrocked and mutilated (missing limbs), hidden at the bottom of the cupboard; 'Queer Barbie' was well and truly reprimanded for her gender 'slippage' and was ostracised from her more respectable hetero-feminised cousins."
Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: What Might Boys Read? | internetmonk.com
Many, many good suggestions, beyond Harry Potter and Narnia.
Op-Ed Columnist - The Best Kids' Books Ever - NYTimes.com
Nicholas Kristof's recommendations include The Hardy Boys series, Anne of Green Gables, The Wind in the Willows, The Prince and the Pauper, and the Harry Potter books, plus a bunch you may never have heard of. In a blog entry, the Kristof children offer their own book recommendations.
Lenore Skenazy: Why I'm Raising Free-Range Kids
Skenazy writes that DVDs of the first five seasons of Sesame Street (1969-1974) are labeled adults-only, because they show kids playing on their own: "'These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grown-ups.'... The wimps at PBS refuse to sanction any notion that kids can play on their own anymore. So now it's modeling the NEW norm: Constant parental supervision."
The Baldwin Project: Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall
"A child's history of England from earliest legendary times delightfully retold. Beginning with the stories of Albion and Brutus, it relates all the interesting legends and hero tales in which the history of England abounds through the end of the reign of Queen Victoria." Read it online or buy the book.
Pioneer Woman - Homeschooling - Re-re-research Paper
Guest blogger Heather L. Sanders explains how she introduced her 3rd grader to the process of planning, researching, and writing a research paper -- a good outline of a process you may wish to adapt and use to teach organizational and library skills.
GetRightOK.com - School Board - We are autonomous of taxpayers
Outgoing Broken Arrow Public School board member Maryanne Flippo, regarding the district's legal expenses: "I don't believe the public is entitled to know these details. That is my job as an elected official."
Homeschoolers Save Taxpayers Billions Per Year » The Foundry
"Across the country, 1.5 million children are currently being educated at home. Just how much would it cost taxpayers if these students enrolled in their 'free' public school? We conservatively estimate the cost to be between $4 and $10 billion annually. These savings will mount as the number of families choosing to teach their children at home grows." (Via Choice Remarks.)
