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Bryan Singer, director of the X-Men movies and the upcoming Superman Returns, is strolling through the rolling cornfields around what will soon be Clark Kent's childhood home. The corn is 12 weeks old, he says proudly, and was grown especially for the movie. "This entire house was constructed on a soundstage," Singer explains, "and then disassembled, rebuilt here in Tamworth [Australia] and then redressed." Not only are we not in Kansas anymore, but apparently we were never there in the first place...
These aren’t the church basement sandbox and Lincoln Log preschools of our childhood memories. The world has changed since then, and nursery school programs with it. In fact, most are no longer called nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such...
...Harvard. We can start by telling people that the smartest and most engaging students we know might not have even set foot in a traditional classroom at all. But above all, we can tell parents that the happiest students we know did not burn out in early childhood from constant pressure to succeed, to beat ever increasing odds to reach the next rung of the ladder...
...White showed how childhood development is a product of schools and society’s design,” said University of Illinois Psychology Professor Philip Rodkin, a former doctoral student of White?...
Other studies by White focused on educational policy, the ethics of educational practice, and the history surrounding childhood development...