Recently, Newburyport resident and grandparent Clare Keller sent the School Committee a link to an article she recommended regarding the role of schools in serving the changing needs of students.
It's a great article; with her permission I link to it and encourage you read it:
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/334/
The article quotes Neil Postman, who has been one of the most assertive, challenging and thoughtful philosopher writing about schools and popular culture. He rarely minces words; the first paragraph of the first chapter of his first book, Teaching as a Subversive Activity, suggests that the most important job of a teacher and a school system is provide kids with a "crap detector", so that they can actively filter out the unrelenting commercial garbage they are exposed to everyday.
I'm a big fan of Postman.
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