Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/26/2019

• Widening the Lens: A Conversation with Beverly Daniel Tatum - Educational Leadership

  • So we have to think about who sees themselves in the curriculum and materials we use in the classroom—and how.
  • Facing History and Ourselves has some excellent material on Reconstruction, for example, as well as contemporary issues. Teaching for Change and Southern Poverty Law Center are other organizations that offer resources that can help teachers provide greater balance and depth.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/08/2019

• What the College-Admissions Scandal Reveals - The Atlantic

  • A successful first meeting often consisted of walking them back from the crack pipe of Harvard to the Adderall crash of Middlebury and then scheduling a follow-up meeting to douse them
  • with the bong water of Denison.
  • Sometimes, in anger and frustration, the parents would blame me for the poor return on investment they were getting on their years of tuition payments.
  • Today, according to Slate, “in places like Greenwich, Conn., and certain zip codes of New York City and Los Angeles, the percentage of untimed test-taking is said to be close to 50 percent.”

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/06/2019

• Should We Speak to Little Boys as We Do Little Dogs? - The New York Times

  • During the school day the boys soldier through. They use “inside voices,” hold back tears that they’ve learned they would be shamed for, keep their bottoms in the chair and their hands to themselves. After school they are ferried to highly structured adult-led extras: enrichment, remediation and sports practices.

    Finally at home after the long day, there’s homework to do.

    At this point many boys have used up their cache of self-control. Some go on strike. It’s what union organizers call “malicious compliance”: show up but don’t work. Unless a parent acts as concierge and personal assistant from start to finish.

  • Their extreme anxiety is their energy, imagination and passion turned inward, against themselves and their family’s peaceful home.
  • My question to the parents in my office is this: What percentage of your communication with your son consists of nagging, reminding, chastising or yelling? “Uh … 90 percent, 100?” Which I know isn’t true, just as confidently as I know these boys aren’t mentally ill and these families aren’t rife with hidden dysfunction.
  • In general he’s more comfortable chatting side by side than face to face. Holding an object in his hands eases tension, too. Your role is to be attentive and receptive to the commentary.
  • Hinting may be lost on your son.
  • So think of your conversations as shooting hoops. You say a little something, then another little something, and sometimes it goes through and you get a basket.
  • Shower your son with the easy affection, appreciation and tolerance you show your dog.

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