Re: LOGO-L> Re: What really is Logo?

["Dale R. Reed" <dale-reed@worldnet.att.net>]

Brian said:
<snip>
>reason I don't like talking about "the Logo philosophy" instead of
>talking about "progressive education" is that the former encourages
>people to read Seymour's books and stop there, instead of reading
>Dewey and Paul Goodman and John Holt and so on.


Is this what you are encouraging Brian?  Notice who is paying for
and/so/also is essentially controlling this progressive education.
Dale

http://www.seattletimes.com/news/education/html98/minr_122098.html

Copyright © 1998 The Seattle Times Company

Posted at 06:03 p.m. PST; Sunday, December 20, 1998
Hopeful signs at T.T. Minor

by Jolayne Houtz
Seattle Times staff reporter
This article is part of an occasional series on the transformation
under way at T.T. Minor Elementary School, beneficiary of a unique
public-private reform effort financed by a multimillion-dollar
commitment from Seattle businessman Stuart Sloan.

For most of her adult life, Tracie Holiday-Robinson would drive past
her neighborhood school - the school she attended as a girl, the
school she considered so bad she wouldn't let her own children
enroll - and she would think to herself:

"Oh, poor T.T. Minor. When is that school going to get it together?"
<snip>
The family-support workers and school nurse are making home visits,
collecting birth histories on the children, learning more about the
needs of the families that make up their school.

Teachers have gone through extensive training in the new curriculum,
called High/Scope, a Montessori-like program that encourages
child-directed activities, places teachers in the role of guides and
calls for teachers to take daily notes about each child's behavior and
progress.

Parents, too, have been invited to two sessions with the Atlanta-based
trainer to understand how High/Scope's emphasis on play with a purpose
will help their children learn.
<snip>
Sloan handpicked most of the 11 members of a board of trustees that
includes two parents, business leaders, human-services representatives
and a teachers-college dean, as well as himself.
<snip>
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