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What We Read

The following list provides a small sampling of what the Free Union community has been reading and considering. Discussions might take place at faculty meetings or occasional morning coffee with parents. 

• NAIS article by Abe Wehmiller and André Withers in which the authors raise issues relative to inclusivity in independent schools

• What if the Secret to Success is Failure?

• The Trouble With Homework

• Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills

• Sir Ken Robinson on "Changing Education Paradigms"

• Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?

• Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution

• Want more scientists? Turn grade schools into laboratories: Priya Natarajan

• Susan Engel on how curiosity is the engine that drives learning

• Sal Khan on "Using video to reinvent education"

• Maria McKenna's TEDx talk about joyful learning identifies the fundamental ideas behind elementary education at Free Union. Now faculty at the University of Notre Dame, Maria states: "I'm proud to say I got my start as a teacher at Free Union Country School."

• What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart?

• Lively Minds: Distinctions between academic versus intellectual goals for young children (Lilian G. Katz)

• Share This with All the Schools, Please -- Glennon Doyle Melton's observation of a teacher who looks for the lost child in the mix and knows that kindness and bravey beat math and language arts in the growth of loving children.

• To the White Parents of My Black Son's Friends -- About race and courage, by Maralee Bradlee

• Progressive education and brain research and the improvement of educational practice. From the Calhoun School.
• What they're reading at Calhoun (on social justice, STEM, language arts, progressive education, more)
• Success Academy’s Radical Educational Experiment (Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.)