How do we raise capable, curious, resilient kids? This is a place to compare notes on parenting, discuss schools and higher education, debate education policy, and talk about the future of learning.

We live in Seattle, and I’m trying to broaden my kids’ intellectual horizons without making it feel like I’m just reacting against school culture. Schools here are obsessed with climate change, racism, inequality, corporate power, or environmental problems. Those are real topics, but the treatment often feels narrow, repetitive, and morally pre-packaged: humans are bad, we’re destroying the earth, the system is broken, corporations are evil, etc. Other parents and kids often reinforce the same

I’m very thankful to The Free Press for publishing articles on the state of education in our country (overuse of technology, decreasing test scores, etc.) but after reading them I’m often left wondering, “where are the people addressing some of these concerns and how do I join them?”. If you have ever felt the same, I wanted to spread some hope and share one of the groups that I found. It’s called the Distraction-Free Schools Policy Project, a partner of the Anxious Generation and a volunteer-le