Archive for January, 2009

Bullies and predators

I’ve always been a little bit skeptical of the milk-carton approach to kids’ safety when they participate in the Web. And I have skin in the game; Laura spends a whole lot of time on social networking sites, and recently Lilly has been doing a fair amount of Web surfing too, albeit mostly for Flash [...]

Leave no child hungry

Gerald Coles is back in Rethinking Schools noting that there’s a lot more going on for kids than technical skills and neurological pathways and stuff like that. None of this is new, but it’s refreshing to see it stated so plainly. Clinton’s third term is going to see a lot of liberal posturing about education [...]