"The driving force in the life of a child, starting much earlier than it used to be, is to be cool, to fit in," Grodd told the group. "And pretty universally, it's cool to rebel." In other words, prepare for you and your netbook to be jeered out of the room. "The best schools," Grodd told me later, "are able to make learning cool, so the cool kids are the ones who get As. That's an art."
It's hard. You do it, according to the article, by breaking the youth culture - having lots of adults around all the time, everywhere.
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This article interprets the students' success as a result of "breaking" youth culture and promoting nerdiness. While this may be true, increasing the presence of adults in our schools, nerd culture aside, would dramatically improve schools across our nation. When kids have positive role models, adults who care and coach them through life, as well as support for their interests, they (typically) can't help but thrive. I'm not convinced nerdiness is the answer--I think caring adults are.
sounds like a human ecology major :-)
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