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Many Years of School Reform: A Veteran Teacher Reflects on Changes in Kids and the Classroom
The attention span of young kids in particular has shortened, both in the intellectual and physical sense, over the duration of Ticia’s career. Roughly 50% of kids need to be moving all the time – feet, bodies, hands, fingers — whereas at the beginning of Ticia’s working life compulsive movement described perhaps only one or two out of a class of 30. This is one category of school measurement where boys have continued to reign supreme. Continue reading
Schools and Culture: Boys in Disarray
Summary: The struggles of boys in today’s American schools reflect historical assaults on their self-image and the erosion of legitimate authority in the culture. It was an impressive group of kids, these seniors at my high school outside of Seattle. … Continue reading
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