Monday, October 9, 2006

This I Believe If you've listened to NPR, you've heard this series: This I Believe. Reading the essays at NPR's This I Believe website is pretty instructive and inspirational. I'll be reading these for awhile. Look at "Failure is a Good Thing" and "The Tense Middle..." 10:43:29 PM    comment []

Middle School Kids and The TV TV Hurts Kids' School Performance: Study Study backs parents who say "No TV on a school-night" Here's another study suggesting that the average middle school student watches 4 hours of TV a day, and that it adversely affects their performance in school as well as their health. And according to this study, middle school kids watching R-rated movies do even worse. If you know me, you know I'm not a knee-jerk don't-ever-watch-an-R-rated-moved kind of guy. But it seems to me two things are needed: 1. Less time watching TV 2. More time spent engaging what we do watch thoughtfully. 8:53:09 AM    comment []

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