A century ago, Progressive reformers who thought that urban children were becoming disconnected from the soil and their food encouraged the development of community gardens for kids in empty urban spaces. Children got at least three benefits from urban garden projects: first, they got out in the fresh air; second, they got fresh vegetables that [...]
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Children’s Vegetable Gardens: an idea whose time has come again
Posted in education, Food, gardening, organic food, organic gardening, tagged children, education, environment, family, Food, gardening, kids, nature, organic gardening, photography on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Making Schools Better: lessons from Arkansas’s failures
Posted in education, family, Uncategorized, tagged children, education, family, kids, school on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, the Arkansas Department of Education made available a comparison, school by school, of students’ grades and standardized test scores. Not surprisingly, almost all schools’ grades of A and B were higher than the students who had been judged proficient in basic subjects, and some schools’ disparity was shockingly high. And schools [...]
