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>When I was a lad,

March 26, 2009 By 4 Comments

>Boston Latin was where the smart kids went. No more. [Update] The Boston.com story has been updated and now makes a lot more sense.

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>Yikes

August 8, 2008 By 28 Comments

>Liz B. pointed me toward this PW essay on the thin line between reader’s advisory work and putting limitations on library access for kids. It gives me the willies. Is it right for me to discourage a kid’s reading choice? No. But is it right for me to give a kid a book that I [...]

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>Taking the Children

January 22, 2008 By 15 Comments

>It’s been a while, but Richard clipped an article for me that speaks to us all. It’s NY Times movie critic A. O. Scott writing about taking his kids to movies for which they are putatively too young, and he builds his argument from books: ” . . . something in me rebels against the [...]

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>Where the world was as blue as an orange

March 5, 2007 By 7 Comments

>If not the world, then the University of Illinois, where even the damned goldfish gracing the tank in the Illini Union come in the school colors. (As does this blog, I suddenly notice. It has to be the ugliest color combo I’ve ever seen, and now I know I’m going to see it everywhere.) But [...]

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