by mylinhshattan | Oct 16, 2015 | Bookshelf, On Education, On Literature, On Writing, Reader Favorites
“Scout” Finch’s first day in school exposes the pretentious and often hollow ambitions behind progressive education in the 1930s and today. The beloved characters from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird provide timeless insight on public education. Scout’s... 
by mylinhshattan | Jul 22, 2015 | On Education, On Literature
He wasn’t tall but he was fit and wore the beard of a man in charge of his own schedule. His shop opened last year and he doubled its inventory since, adding furniture like a stool with inlaid walnuts, another with legs of horn, and collectibles like the... 
by mylinhshattan | May 7, 2015 | On Education, On Life
My sixth grade daughter has been pleading with me to “opt-out” of the Common Core testing she’s endured this past week, a trial battery of testing. She’s been testing for seven school days now and that includes a combination of tests: CAT for... 
by mylinhshattan | Nov 17, 2014 | On Education
A panel of speakers discussed the Common Core this week at the New Canaan Library with a room full of concerned citizens. Connecticut adopted verbatim the new standards in 2010 as a means to opt out of the No Child Left Behind law. Many of us knew little about it.... 
by mylinhshattan | Sep 23, 2014 | On Education, On Life
Our Middle School principal sent guidance on the topic of town safety: students are discouraged from walking into town after school. He shares the numbers and concludes: Anyway you “do the math”, you can calculate that a large number of unsupervised middle school aged...