Heard on the radio (guess what’s missing from this story)

New Dating Seminars Target Teen Violence
by Brenda Wilson, NPR
September 28, 2009 School officials are worried that too many teens are hitting and slapping the person they’re dating. To target this dating abuse, violence prevention classes are springing up in schools around the country.

NPR did an interesting little report yesterday on relational violence in teen dating.   The report was interesting, but to me it felt like the study really misses the mark on several counts.

Critical Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education

Here are two good videos about Critical Pedagogy from The Freire Project

Cognitive Dissonance

On the one hand…..

No comment… or only just a little little bit

Been really busy but just spent a few minutes skimming what’s been going on around the internet and out there in the material world as well.  My short cut to interesting news stories is always Detention Slip, and when I let a week pass by, all kinds of interesting things happen out there in school land.  I’ll just post a hand full of interesting news stories that resonate here and you can jump to them at leisure.

Down in Texas they are working on a new U.S. History textbook

Texas and California pretty much drive the textbook publication market. So this ought to be interesting. Talking Points Memo has more coverage of the hearings.