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Category: In Defense of Childhood
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Chris Mercogliano calls on us to envision schools as places to teach kids democratic principles by participating in democratic processes.
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Michael Phelps didn’t need drugs to ‘fly into Olympic history. And at the tender age of 11 he decided he didn’t need them to negotiate his way through school. Growing up in what by several accounts was an authoritarian household—his father was a state trooper and in an interview in the New York Times his…
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By Chris Mercogliano I am in absolute agreement with Bruce E. Levine: it isn’t ODD at all that our society has stepped up its efforts to pathologize young people with biopsychiatric labels like Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), when they either cannot or will not march in step with the majority…
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by Chris Mercogliano A national study just released by the National Endowment for the Arts warns that the sustainability of American culture is at risk because our society is turning more and more toward electronic media for information and entertainment and we are reading less and less as a result. Big surprise, right? However, as…
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