Education News – Julia Steiny
“A “can-do” spirit seems as fundamentally American as Mom and apple pie. “Can do” has a super-encouraging tone of voice, the kind that kindergarten teachers use, or my mother when she assured us that “good manners can be fun!”…But in these cynical times, “can-do” sounds corny, even naive…In 2015, we can surely do better by our kids. The current situation is ridiculous. By so many measures, American kids aren’t doing at all well, given their high rates of poverty, drugs, teen pregnancy, single-parent homes, failure to launch, educational under-achievement, etc. Our kids’ stats are dismal compared with the rest of the developed world…In 2015, let’s consider policies, decisions, actions, architecture, whatever, in terms of whether or not they’re good for kids.”(more)