Outside of School

09 Aug Sonia Sotomayor and the All Stars

Posted at 15:21h in Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School, Youth Development 0 Comments

About 100 young people watched the swearing in of Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court judge at the All Stars Project's headquarters on 42 St. Sotomayor is a friend of the All Stars and has "mentored" young people in one of its programs, the Development School for Youth. Lots of press...

20 Jul Could Developmental After School Eliminate the Need for Remediation?

Posted at 23:18h in Activity Theory, Culture, Education, Learning Environments, Outside of School 0 Comments

In the extreme, schooling transforms not knowing into a deficit; creative imitation into individualized accomplishments, rote learning and testing; and completion into correction and competition. This is the current situation. This is what schools do and don’t do. I...