Author: ps pirro

• Shoppers Disappoint Retailers

  “Shoppers Disappoint Retailers this Holiday Season.” Some analysts say the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., earlier this month may also have chipped away at shoppers’…

• Sometimes You Really Can’t Get There from Here

  Derek Sivers on why a focus on local isn’t right for everything, or everyone.  

• School is Prison 2.0

  Chipped ID cards, surveillance cameras and more! Peter Gray is right. School is prison.

• Homework

  Alfie Kohn shares more research that concludes there is no meaningful benefit to homework. And still, the homework persists, because there are plenty of people…

• Resurfacing

  I have been away. I think I may be coming back. Late last year I took over the little café space in our local library,…

• A More Satisfying Relationship

  People come to unschooling through a search for alternatives to conventional school and curriculum-based homeschooling. It’s good to remind ourselves along the way that the…

• Living As If School Didn’t Exist

  The yarn project needs two more colors. Can we go to JoAnn? I put Sherlock on the Netflix queue. It says there’s a very long…

• Library Educated

  “I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in…

• The Conceptual Lens

  “The conceptual lens through which we view (a situation) largely determines how we feel about it. This is one of the ways our thinking about…

• Signal to Noise

  “Until you remove the noise, you’re going to miss a lot of signal.” Why blogging may be (once again) the best place to go to…