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Why Scout Finch Hates School – the Best Novel of the Century on Education

Why Scout Finch Hates School – the Best Novel of the Century on Education

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...
A Stone Pig and Cold Feet – Common Core in New York

A Stone Pig and Cold Feet – Common Core in New York

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...
Common Core SBAC Testing – “Stupid Brain Abuse and Cruelty” – an 11 Year Old’s Civil Disobedience

Common Core SBAC Testing – “Stupid Brain Abuse and Cruelty” – an 11 Year Old’s Civil Disobedience

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...
Common Core in Connecticut: Bureaucracy Beats Democracy

Common Core in Connecticut: Bureaucracy Beats Democracy

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....
School Guidance, Common Core & the Orwellian State

School Guidance, Common Core & the Orwellian State

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...
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