A Sample of Recent Articles about Waldorf Education
GRADING THE DIGITAL SCHOOL: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
New York Times, By Matt Richtel, October 22, 2011
Invitation to a Dialogue: Computers in School?
New York Times, Letters to the Editor, October 25, 2011
Response across the country to the NYT article:
Are Waldorf Schools the Antidote For Tech-Saturated Families?
Babble BlogPost, Posted by amywindsor on October 25th, 2011
Do kids need computers to learn? Some schools are saying no
Montreal Gazette, By Henry Aubin, October 26, 2011
Do kids learn more without computers? Waldorf schools ban computers to help kids learn through creative, tactile tasks. Funny enough, many Silicon Valley bigwigs are on board
The Week Magazine, October 31, 2011
Nashville school takes students off the digital grid: Some say screens dull young minds
The Tennessean, By Nancy DeVille, November 5, 2011
Austin school says young minds don't need computers (Includes video from news segment)
WFAA-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas), By Monika Diaz, November 9, 2011
Assignment: Education - No Screens in Class Waldorf education fosters a low-tech environment (Includes video from news segment)KCBS-TV (San Fransisco), November 10, 2011
Some Ohio Schools Say Computers Don’t Belong in Classrooms (Includes video from news segment)
An NPR Project, By Ida Lieszkovszky, November 21, 2011
The Waldorf Way: Silicon Valley school eschews technology (Includes video from news segment)
NBC Nightly News, By Rehema Ellis, November 30, 2011
Suncoast Waldorf School rejects computers in the classroom (Includes video from news segment)
WTSP-TV (Tampa Bay, Florida), By Isabel Mascarenas, December 1, 2011
General Articles about Waldorf Education:
Waldorf school offers unique approach to teaching physics and mathematics through art
Conway Daily Sun (North Conway, New Hampshire), November 05, 2011
Charles Greenhalgh: Waldorf School can provide best education for your child
Conway Daily Sun (North Conway, New Hampshire), Letter to the Editor, November 15, 2011
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Why some educators and scientists believe technology is bad for brains — especially young ones
Colorado Springs Independent, by J. Adrian Stanley, November 24, 2011
What can slow schools teach us?
San Diego Union Tribune, By Elisa J. Sobo, Tony Cirone and Bonnie Holden, November 25, 2011
The Importance of Play in Early Childhood:
Death of Preschool?: The trend in early education is to move from a play-based curriculum to a more school-like environment of directed learning. But is earlier better? And better at what?
Originally posted in Scientific American, By Paul Tullis, November 2, 2011
Is Preschool Dead?
HuffingtonPost.com, Follow up to Scientific American Article, By Lisa Belkin, November 2, 2011
If We Don't Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs?
HuffingtonPost.com, By Darell Hammond, October 20, 2011
All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed
The Atlantic, By Esther Entin, M.D., October 12, 2011
General News of Interest to the Community:
How writing by hand makes kids smarter
The Week Magazine, October 6, 2011
The Mediatrician: Former Hollywood filmmaker Michael Rich of HMS studies how media affect youth.
Harvard Magazine, By Cara Feinberg, November-December 2011
When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids
The Washington Post, By Marion Brady, December 5, 2011