President Obama called for “more challenging curriculums and more demanding parents” in his state of the union address and the NY Times has followed this up with a debate on its pages, Blaming Parents for Poor Schools which, I think, encapsulate the issues of why schools are so resistant to change . . .

Don't Limit Your Child To Your Own Learning

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time."—Rabindranath Tagore. The young man in this video makes a strong case about this, and other learning issues, from the point of view of the learner . . .

John Holt GWS