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[This is a guest post from Tucker, a recently-graduated high school student. He wrote this for his senior year Comp class.] Hearing the phrase “Get out your textbooks” from a high school teacher makes me want to throw up, and it is something I have heard for the last four years in almost every class...
Apparently between 1998 and 2010 we killed kindergarten. Lots more testing. Much less music and art. Fewer centers and unstructured play time. Fewer student-driven activities. Greater disregard for young children’s variation in development. More emphasis on teacher-directed instruction and textbooks and worksheets… We knew this but now it’s not just widespread anecdotes. We now have...