Category: Education
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Grey minivan people
Is there anything better in California than a day like today? My sister told me that they were coming to visit (from the East Bay) and that they were planning to go to the beach for low tide. I like an excuse to get me to the beach. Perhaps it’s not this way for your…
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Avant parenting, Japanese style
Sometimes I wonder homeschooling is a sign of madness. Then it occurs to me that parenting is probably a sign of madness. It certainly is for the men: they could go off and do the mighty hunter routine and go find another cave to live in, but instead they stick around with us. For the…
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There's a fungus amongus!
One of the things I love to do with this blog is point other parents toward really great resources and events in our community. Here is one that I can’t speak more highly of: The annual Santa Cruz Fungus Fair sponsored by the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz. The fungus fair celebrates something about the…
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How to fix our schools? First, ask the right question.
A friend forwarded two articles about the state of education in California and all the political wrangling: How do we best improve our schools? How do we get more federal money? What is the effect of teacher’s unions on reforms? What is the effect of charter schools on kids and on neighborhood schools? I realized…
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Our neighborhood schools: what makes them attractive?
Yesterday I posted a critique of what’s going on in the Soquel School District, as described in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I suggested that perhaps people quoted in the Sentinel were wrong in blaming overt racism for the fact that parents are clamoring to get their kids into Main Street School, which is only blocks…