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Author: City Mom

City Mom lives in St. Louis, Missouri, where her children attend school.

Standardized education: moving America to the right

November 7, 2011 City Mom Education, Ideas, Youth issues Leave a comment

Listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, one would think that American schools are bastions of the hard left, education factories that churn out

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“Then you win:” A family visit to Occupy St. Louis

November 4, 2011 City Mom Charity & Justice, Ideas, Missouri region, Politics, Youth issues Leave a comment

When you’re a parent, there is plenty to feel guilty about.  My kids don’t eat enough vegetables, I don’t always  keep my cool during

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What would reasonable school reform look like?

October 17, 2011 City Mom Education, Youth issues Leave a comment

In my last two articles for Occasional Planet, I lambasted two current trends in our country’s educational system: over-reliance on standardized tests and the

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Education: When more is less

October 10, 2011 City Mom Education Leave a comment

The “more is always better” approach to instructional time is a  popular and destructive fetish among educational policy makers (and one that goes hand-in-hand

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Evaluating teachers based on students’ test scores is harmful. Here’s why.

October 6, 2011 City Mom Education 4 comments

I taught sixth grade in a local public middle school for six years.  It was a struggling, blue-collar district.  My students’ parents did not

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Best and worst of times for St. Louis City parents of school kids

June 29, 2011 City Mom Education, Missouri region, Youth issues 6 comments

There is a widespread misperception that, unless it’s a Catholic school or very expensive private school, to send your children to school in the

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