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We’ve suspected that Aidan can read for some time now. We read to him for literally hours each day, but he has until very recently resisted doing much reading aloud to us. (Even though, we believe he has been secretly able to read for a long time now.) Today, however, he decided that he’d like [...]

Aidan made his stage debut yesterday as little pig #1 in the Beverly Arts Center production of “The Three Little Pigs.” We are very proud of him. Check out the show below.

As we continue our conversation about the aims of education in my composition course this semester, we’ve been talking about this idea of not learning–not the inability to learn or the lack of opportunity, but the willful refusal to learn, to the point where it actually takes a good deal of work. My hope is [...]