There are some good points in this article (although the irony of
Stanford inveighing against elitism is pretty broad). When the author
writes, however, that students today "have no time to hang out or delve
into deep problems or reflect on what they are learning," I suspect that
she has strung
To reinforce a point I made in a previous post on how seriously some
parents take getting into the "right" pre-school, I'd like to present the
following:
(1) An article in the NY Daily News about a documentary on this
phenomenon. The name of the documentary is "Nursery University".
See:
http://w
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:31:53 -0800, Edward Pollak wrote:
>I wish I could send TIPS some of the blog entries written by a
>young cousin of mine who was teaching English in China at some
>private schools for the children of fairly wealthy families. The poor
>work ethic, sense of entitlement, & la
