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Wishes: The Science and Poetry of Dandelions
At age five, my daughter was told that when you find a stem topped with one of those white puff balls–what we adults recognize with widespread enmity as dandelion seed heads–and blow it into the air, whatever wish you make on that dispersing cloud will come true. Consequently, she began calling these seed heads “wishes”. …
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Video games: a portal to the world of learning
Until October 2024, it had been a few decades since something in formal school learning was so searingly relevant to and influential on my personal life. The last time, I lived with two Black women and learned from the education-related research of author Jonathan Kozol (1992) that these, two of my closest and most important…
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