Late last night, I was honored to be a guest on Florida pharmacist Larry Golbom's talk radio show, Prescription Addiction Radio, and we got to chat for almost an hour about a parent's role in education, the standardization of young kids, why recess has gone away, why young boys are fidgety and can't concentrate, kindergarten redshirting, and more.
MP3 of the show:
Here's the link to listen in on what we talked about; I'm a guest the full second hour of the show. Some corrections: Diane Ravitch was the Assistant Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush, and she said education was the new gold rush, not the new gold mine as I say on the show.
Since this is the month of gratitude, I'd also like to take a moment to thank some people without whom this blog and my experience writing in the world of education and reform would simply not be possible: my father, retired 40-year veteran teacher Danny Kinnaird, and his wisdom and insight which are almost always right; my gifted husband Chris "Meat+Bones" Korbey, who designs my website and all the incredible photo/illustrations, and stays up too late coming up with visual concepts for my ideas; my incredibly intelligent Mom and mother-in-law, who help me talk out issues and comment voraciously; my friend Kurt Wootton, director of the Habla school, and Dr. Jerry Burkett, principal in Grand Prairie, TX, for guiding my thoughts and reading and letting me know when I'm on and off the mark about education reform and child-learning in general. And of course, I cannot give thanks to the education gods without mentioning Mrs. Masterson, Mr. Griepenstroh, Mr. Lindauer, Mrs. Lindauer, Kat Singleton, and Bruce Longworth - teachers who inspired me to do better than I thought I could, be more myself that I thought I had in me, and who gave me the impression that learning was a thrill. Without all of them, I'd be nothing but a blabbering idiot guest on talk radio - and I think we might have enough of those already.
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