Category Archives: Mind & Society

Not Quite Lifelong Learning

By CircleReader | August 28th, 2008
"So let me get this straight," I said. "If I were to drop out of school tomorrow and get a job at Burger King, the state would pay for my child care?"
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Essential and Subversive: Parents in Education

By CircleReader | August 28th, 2008
However beneficial we understand parent involvement in education to be, the system we have is not integrated, but segregated.
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Teach Them to Read and Let Them Go!

By CircleReader | August 11th, 2008
Having conventional life stages mapped out is comforting--we know what we are supposed do and when; but what if life doesn't always fit in a box? Or what if, as recent developmental research implies, there is no box?
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August, 1945

By CircleReader | August 8th, 2008
Sixty-three years ago this week, the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The enormity of the event, the inhuman scale of both this power and its consequences, is nearly impossible to communicate. How can one understand the power of a thousand suns unleashed upon whole cities? It became one of the defining stories for generations [...]
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

By CircleReader | August 7th, 2008
Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group--not affluenza, but apprenticeship. For me, Covenant Point was where I learned to love creation and its Lord, and to see his character and presence in the counselors & campers there. So I asked our boys, "At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?"
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There’s Something Happening Here…

By CircleReader | August 5th, 2008
Nicholas Carr says, This is your brain online. You've been warned. Now go forth and read.
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Civility on the Web (or, If you talk, be polite)

By CircleReader | August 3rd, 2008
The New York Times explores calls for a Code of Conduct (like this from Jimmy Wales, or this from Tim O’Riley) on the web, as well as the motivations and secret lives of the Trolls Among Us; and Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, explains why A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy.
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Male and Female: Equal After All

By CircleReader | August 2nd, 2008
Cecilia Ford's investigations into the power of conversation for her new book, Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings, are reviewed here: Researcher finds that women are speaking up; and Janet Hyde, author of Half the Human Experience, has published research that finds no gender differences in math performance.
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Everything to Gain

By CircleReader | July 16th, 2008
What if you could right a wrong from your parents generation, and pass on a blessing to your children? What if you could build businesses in the community, cut crime, pollution, and disease, and make a profit doing it?
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Madame President, Our Teacher

By CircleReader | July 8th, 2008
The primary role of parents applies also to teachers and world leaders: Dear Madame President [though of course, you may turn out to be a man]: Teaching and teacher education have traditionally been viewed as women’s work and practiced by women. Like nursing, teaching has never been taken seriously among the more august professions…. I [...]
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