Newsletter
Entries for April, 2012 in Learning in Freedom
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By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
It is a bad word because it has suffered so much abuse. Yesterday I tried to start one. I've been starting a diet since eighth grade. I have never finished one. I hate the word “diet” because it brings to ...
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By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
This is really old news. I avoided telling you all that one of my children moved away. My oldest son lives in his own apartment on his college campus in another town. When I worry about him and wonder what ...
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Growing Dependence on Inferior Assessment (rant)
By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. -Roger Lewin John Taylor Gatto observed that short answer tests were dumbing our students down. Short answer tests require a student to respond with one expected answer ...