- Feb 5, 2014
All Work and No Play
Published in ChicagoNow, February 5, 2014 It's been over 25 years since Robert Fulghum published Everything I Wanted to Know I Learned in...
- Jan 10, 2014
Standards Driven Education Reaches Preschool
Published in ChicagoNow, January 10, 2014 (cCartoon by Marcia Liss) Now I’m really angry! Cherry Preschool, which I founded and directed,...
- Dec 6, 2013
Grading First Graders, Seriously?
Published in ChicagoNow, December 6, 2013 On December 3, 2013, the most recent scores from the Program of International Student...
- Nov 22, 2013
Why I am Mad at Arne Duncan Today
Published in ChicagoNow, November 22, 2013 (Photo: Rachel Monroe/Monroe's Dragonfly) Today, on the 50th anniversary of the assassination...
- Nov 6, 2013
No More Time Outs
Published in ChicagoNow, November 6, 2013 (Photo by Marco Nedermeijer) My 4-year-old grandson who lives in another state wondered when...
- Oct 25, 2013
Mister Rogers, Doctor Seuss, & Tests
Published ChicagoNow, October 25, 2013 A friend of mine who trains Chicago public elementary school teachers how to teach reading was...
- Oct 23, 2013
No child left behind, or leave no child behind - a big difference
Published in ChicagoNow, October 23, 2013 Most of this post was printed in the Cherry Preschool newsletter in January of 2006, but it...
- Oct 21, 2013
Getting Ready for Kindergarten
Published in ChicagoNew, October 21, 2013 My four-year-old grandson will be one of the youngest boys in next year’s kindergarten class. ...
- Oct 2, 2013
Kindergarten Class of 2014: Color Outside Those Lines!
Published in ChicagoNow, October 2, 2013 The nation’s five-year-olds filed into their schools for the first time last month, their faces...