Suki Wessling: writer, teacher, radio host

Category: Culture

  • Unreasonable expectations, part 2

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    This is a second in a two-part piece about the current state of educational testing in our K-12 schools. The first half covered the reliability of standardized testing, whether we should be using standardized tests for younger children, and digital educational design. Click here to read Part 1. The tests don’t test what we think…

  • Unreasonable expectations, part 1

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    This is the first in a two-part post about the new tests being administered through the Common Core. To find out more background on these tests, visit the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium. It’s that season again, the one that used to involve lots of filling in of bubbles. This spring, Google is giggling all the…

  • What’s a parent to do about health and diet?

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    I think parents around the Internet responded strongly to the article Puberty Before Age 10: A New Normal?, published in the New York Times, because it hit on how vulnerable we feel when it comes to making decisions about food. It’s extremely hard to decide what to believe on the issue of how to feed…

  • Neither good nor bad, but very different

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    Recently I spoke about blogging at my son’s journalism class, and we talked about a lot of aspects of how journalists’ lives have changed due to the Internet. I talked about how my blogging is probably the equivalent of the ‘zines that used to pass between people who shared similar interest. When I was in…

  • iPotty, uPotty, we all scream for iPotty!

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    It’s hard to judge which toy is really the worst one released each year—the competition is so stiff! But new screen-based toys for babies are so offensive that it was easy to give this one the award.