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Entries Tagged as 'Professor Stamp'

I’m sure the next 60 years will be way different (rebroadcast)

September 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

(GLO — Sept 09 — I have been remiss, I know, in not sharing more of Professor Stamp’s thoughts and writings. It’s genuinely good stuff. It’s been genuinely good stuff for decades. And decades before that. Heavy sigh.)
Gentle Parent, after some 120 entries over six months writing about whatever crossed my clearly confused mind, […]

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Tags: Professor Stamp · PD for Parents

The first installment — regarding what’s everyone’s business

September 25th, 2008 · No Comments

The first line of the first page of the Introduction to Professor Stamp’s most excellent book (About Schools — What Every Canadian Parent Should Know) begins:
The Canadian Education Association chose for its Year 1951 Education Week the theme “Education is Everyone’s Business.” The slogan seemed to capture the idea that parents, community members and the […]

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Tags: Professor Stamp · Educator Has No Clothes

I’m sure the next 60 years will be way different

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Gentle Parent, after some 120 entries over six months writing about whatever crossed my clearly confused mind, I have an admission to make.
I’ve been holding out on you.
Throughout that time, and for some time before, I have been in possession of the single best resource I have ever found on parents ‘n schools… and I […]

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Tags: Must Reads from the First 150 · Professor Stamp · PD for Parents · School Whisperer