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iz r childrens lrnng? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

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My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan Penguin, 208 pp., $14.00 (paper reprint) Some of our most formative years are spent in schools, odd places whose ostensible goal is adult-directed education but in reality are controlled by student-culture peer groups of which adults have little actual understanding. Adults run examinations and programs, try to be “hip” to teen culture, but ultimately, we must admit, we have little idea what really goes on, making it easy for rumors to run wild. Jeremy Iversen and Rebekah Nathan decided to see for themselves what school life was really like, by going undercover and experiencing it themselves. While they went to different places, in different guises, in entirely different situations (Iversen was a senior in high school, while Nathan was a freshman in college), the pictures they draw are startlingly similar: a world where genuine education is absolutely the last thing on everyone’s mind. Jeremy Iversen gre

iz r childrens lrnng? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Raw Thought by Aaron Swartz iz r childrens lrnng? High School Confidential by Jeremy Iversen Atria, 464 pp., $25.00 My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student by Rebekah Nathan Penguin, 208 pp., $14.00 (paper reprint) Some of our most formative years are spent in schools, odd places whose ostensible goal is adult-directed education but in reality are controlled by student-culture peer groups of which adults have little actual understanding. Adults run examinations and programs, try to be “hip” to teen culture,

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