Recent articles related to Waldorf Education

CBS News, December 5, 2011
Silicon Valley school: No Computers in Classrooms (video)
As teachers across the country turn to laptops and iPads as education tools, one school in Silicon Valley, Calif., has actually banned computers.

NBC Nightly News, November 30, 2011
The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley School Eschews Technology By Rehema Ellis
From the moment you walk into the Waldorf School of the Peninsula there are clear signs that something different is happening. Allysun Sokolowski, a third-grade teacher, greets each one of her 29 students by name and shakes their hand as they enter the classroom

Boston Globe, November 20, 2011
How College Prep is Killing High School  By Russell W. Rumberger
A narrowing focus means more dropouts, says an expert

The Boston Globe reports on educational research that shows how Americans' view of high school needs to change. "A long-term study by sociologist John Clausen tracked children born in the Great Depression for six decades and found that those whose lives turned out best — who obtained more education, had lower rates of divorce, had more orderly careers, achieved higher occupational status, and experienced fewer life crises such as unemployment — shared something he labeled “planful competence,” a combination of dependability, intellectual involvement, and self-confidence. Those factors, he found, didn’t necessarily correspond to higher education or test scores. “There’s nothing that predicts better,” he wrote “than what they were like in high school.

New York Times, October 23, 2011
A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute By Matt Richtel
New York Times education series continues on why Silicon Valley, Google, and other high-tech parents choose to educate their children in low-tech Waldorf schools.

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