Just passing along some enlightening reflections on change I've spotted on the web recently:

• John Spurlock reflects on how one can't escape the problem of race when teaching American history, even when far away in the classrooms of Montenegro. (He also just posted a good article on European Educational Reform).

• Barbara Feinberg reacts to the trend toward assigning "problem books" to children, and the idea that "A good book should make you cry."

• Dennis Jerz describes his struggle to introduce his home-schooled, overactive child to the Apollonian demands of his first chess tournament.

• Dr. Crazy realizes that the authority of a Ph.D. still doesn't manage to change the entrenched gender dynamics in the classroom.
  

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