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August, 1945

August 8, 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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Tagged With: Engineering, War & Peace, Trinity, Stories, Reviews, Nagasaki, Math, Los Alamos, Keiji Nakazawa, Holidays, History, Hiroshima, Girls, Ellen Klages, Books
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Camp Is Where the Heart Is

August 7, 2008

Summer camp is not really about recreation, but about learning the practices of the group — not affluenza, but apprenticeship. So I asked our boys, “At each of these camps, what did you learn? What did you practice?”

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Tagged With: Camp Fire, Camp, Boy Scouts, Community of Practice, Roger Bennet, Religion, Paradise Park, Mentors, Jules Shell
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Homeschool Moments: Dishing Out BOF, Dealing with Prejudice

June 1, 2008

Overcoming prejudice and distrust is not a one-time attitude adjustment, but a continuing journey in the company of people who are not like us, but who may become our civic friends. Such a strategy might go a long way toward more important goals: building a supportive environment for homeschoolers, and reinvigorating the varied practices of education & learning in America today.

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Shelved with: Education|| Mind & Society|| Local Life|| Hearts & Minds|| Continuing Stories
Tagged With: Memorial Day, Ralph Ellison, Race, Prejudice, Politics, Parenting, Martin Haberman, Lifelong Learning, Homeschooling, Food, Elizabeth Eckford, Education, Democracy, Danielle Allen, Community, Civil Rights, BOF
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Family, Heroes, and History

February 12, 2008

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

One thing that Aldo Leopold did to become great was find, and use, his voice. His family was in many ways similar to mine and to thousands of others here in Wisconsin; his famous shack seemed completely familiar to us–just like Grandad’s place up north. But he made a difference in the world by figuring out what he had to say that was worth saying, and saying it wisely and well.

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Shelved with: History|| Reading the Land|| Continuing Stories|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Reading Leopold, Wisconsin, Sand County Almanac, Homer Daehn, Home School, History, Heroes, Environment, Energy, Education, Earth Day, Aldo Leopold Legacy Center, Aldo Leopold
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Good Oak and Good History: Leopold’s “Sand County Almanac”

December 19, 2007

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

Here, right here, is where it happened–the Leopold family and their farm, the acorn, the rabbits, the Civil War, the covered wagons (with all the Ingalls family times), the Great Depression, the dust bowl drouths, floods, storms, fires, extinctions, and acts of government; and the lightning, and the heat from the fire.

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Shelved with: History|| Reading the Land|| Continuing Stories|| Community & Time
Tagged With: Home School, Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, StarLogo, Sand County Almanac, Reading Leopold, Laura Ingalls Wilder, History, Good Oak, Forest, Environment, Education, China, Aldo Leopold
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Locals in a New Place – Reading Aldo Leopold

August 9, 2007

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Reading Aldo Leopold

The literacy of children thus follows the passions and engagements of the parents, and starts where they are.

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Tagged With: Reading Aloud, Place, Environment, Chicago, Aldo Leopold, Wisconsin
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