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STANDARDS FOR ADEQUACY The policies used to determine the size or adequacy of playground space are not codified in one place but are found in several different NYC Department of Education documents. With the recent restructuring of the New York City Department of Education by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, several offices and divisions have been merged.…
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Posted by admin on Apr 21, 2022 8:30:00 AM In this month’s Something to Talk About blog post, Haeny Yoon writes about finding freedom in classroom spaces and reimagining what it truly means to think outside of the box in school. My six-year-old niece brought home a worksheet from school that said, “Think Outside the…
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Source: [CSCA Childhood Art Speaker Series] Dr. Tran Templeton and Dr. Vivek Vellanki – YouTube
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This article takes as its starting point a recognition of play as meaning-making, and the playground as a rich and dynamic ‘meaning-makerspace’ where children draw moment-to-moment, rapidly and rea…
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Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood into a Place for Play Mike Lanza Menlo Park, CA: Free Play Press, 2012. Figures, images, notes, index. 238 pages. $9.95 paper. isbn: 9780984929818My parents moved a lot. Between my fourth and fourteenth birthdays (mostly in the 1950s), I lived in eight different neighborhoods, in six different cities or villages. Yet,…
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The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports offerings for boys and girls changed subsequent to the passage of…
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This is a post-print; the final typeset version is available on the Taylor & Francis website for the journal Childhood Education.
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Background For too many youths, school has become a place for students to withstand and kill time until they can leave and learn about things that matter to them. Instead, schools should be inviting and exciting places to learn but also nurturing spaces where all students feel they belong. Drawing upon expanded definition of literacies…
