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All Posts, Chronologically

2011

December

• "‘The Problem is Always the Adults’"

September

• How to Bore the Children

• “Oh, Grow Up”?

August

• Fixing Math Education in America

• McDonald’s Unveils New Senior Citizen PlayPlace

• "Dyson on Creativity and Education"

• Fred Rogers Center Launches New Curriculum Toolkit

• ‘There Will Be Riots’

• "Margaret Mead’s Child"

• ‘The Classroom is Obsolete’

• Evaluating Mary Poppins’ Job Performance

• "Respect"

• Of Riots and Revolutions

• Bill Watterson on Children and Parents

• Awesome Things Ahead for Dallas Clayton

• But Think of The Children!

• Lessons From Playwork

• How to Talk to Little Girls

• The Future of Education… 100 Years Ago

July

• When The Muppets Worked for IBM

• "The Folks Inside"

• Struck Out, Before Even Up to Bat

• ‘He’s Not My Character to Write Anymore’

• Designing Streets for Play

• "Joy and Sorrow"

• Al Franken, ‘Nuclear’ Families, and the Needs of Children

• Vanity Fair Profiles Maurice Sendak

• "Children Learn What They Live"

• Newsreel Playgrounds

• "Topless in the Pool"

• Children’s Playhouses, Serious Grown-Up Cash

• Some Thoughts on Boredom

• What Would Happen if Everyone in the World Stopped Being Bored?

• “Can a Playground Be Too Safe?”

• "Eleven Up"

• 2011’s ‘State of America’s Children’ Report

• ‘Our Broken Escalator’

• Showcasing Modern Playscapes

• Sex, Violence and the Supreme Court

• A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby

• Tim Gill: ‘The End of Zero Risk in Childhood’

June

• "“You’re in Big Trouble!”"

• The National Youth Rights Association’s Take on Brown v. EMA

• High Drama in the Supreme Court

• A Letter to the Nation’s Video Gaming Youth

• “Youth Have a Legitimate Interest in Making Choices”

• The Benefits of Virtual Worlds for Kids

• Pennsylvania Federal Appeals Court Upholds Students’ Right to Mock Teachers

• U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Ban on Violent Video Games for Children

• Sixth Graders File Complaint Against Toys"R"Us for Gender Discrimination

• Supreme Court’s Ruling Sexist Against Fathers

• The Curious Self-Pity and Resentment Behind ‘Go the F**k to Sleep’

• ‘Fifty Dangerous Things’ in The Huffington Post

• "Why Mathematics is a Foreign Language in America"

• Letters to the Children of Troy

• Behavior, Biology, and Prison Sentences

• ‘Daughters and Dad’s Approval’

• Dads Still in Charge of the Family Fun?

• The Gamification of Everything

• "Buzz Aldrin, Former Free-Range Kid"

• "Things Were a Lot Simpler, You Know?"

• UK Scouts Get Prepared for More Gay Recruits

• Why Parents Should Oppose Evaluating Teachers On Test Scores

• "Continuing Exploration of Mysteries"

May

• 12-Year-Old Boy Wears Skirt to School to Protest Gender Discrimination

April

• "Moving Beyond Teachers"

January

• Florida Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Allow Teachers to Grade Parents

• How the iPad Wants to Be Used

2010

August

• Moonwalking with Mr. Rogers

• Society’s Bias Against Video Games

• The Joys of Reading Children’s Books

• Talking About Toys

June

• Henry Jenkins on ‘The Future of Teenagers’

• Parental Leave and Masculinity

May

• Neil Gaiman’s Instructions, the Spice of the Macabre, and Deep-Fried Cheese Curds

• The Millenial Generation and Political Discourse

• Technology and Nature, Sitting in a Tree

• He-Man and the Masters of Transmedia

• ‘Red Families vs. Blue Families’

• The Boundaries of ‘Home’ for Children

April

• Is It Really That Bad to Let Our Kids Do ‘Big Things’?

• Almost Everything You Could Want to Know About Rock, Paper, Scissors

• Declaring War on PowerPoint

• ‘Boredom Begins at School’

• ‘The Kid Industry’

• Encouraging Children’s Reading Habits

• ‘Play as Something Close to the Divine’

• The Story of Finland’s Education Success (and How to Reboot the System)

• "Child Labor"

• Jason Kottke: On The Extinction of Paper Children’s Books

• The Atlantic: ‘Play’s the Thing’

• ‘It’s Not What We Teach’

• Welcome to the Elderly Age

• ‘The More Things Change…’

• An iPad App Helps an Autistic Teenager Communicate

• The iPad Meets the Children’s Book