Saturday, May 13, 2006

Italian School Culture: Encouraging Unity in the Classroom

May 13, 2006

One interesting and very successful aspect of Italian schools is how the entire system works to promote social cohesion among the students. The basic unit at all school levels is the class – not in the sense of year (grade), but subsection of a year. There are usually multiple sections per year, identified by a [...]

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To Flush or Not to Flush

May 13, 2006

The local newspapers last week reported with glee that Ken Livingstone, the mayor of London, never flushes the toilet after peeing – he stated this publicly, hoping to increase awareness of the global need for water conservation. The immediate reaction of a reader of Metro (the freebie paper that I read on the train) was [...]

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KidSpace: Public Places Where Kids Can Be Kids

May 13, 2006

If I believe what I read in the media (and some bloggers), American parents are getting hysterical about MySpace. For those not in the know (if you’re over 25 but don’t have a teenage child, that likely includes you), MySpace is an online community with tens of millions of members, most of them adolescents and [...]

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