UPFRONT August 31, 2009 Issue

TIME TO LEARN, TIME TO GROW

STEVE GRAHAM,

What will students find when they return to school in the coming year?

On the one hand, many will reap the benefits of educational systems that increasingly value the needs of each individual child. It's probably safe to say that today's faculty are encouraged more than ever to understand the roadblocks to learning, taking into account the students' particular home environments and unique learning requirements. Hopefully, there will be ongoing attempts at promoting the understanding and tolerance, the inclusiveness and diversity, that foster the best that classrooms have to offer.

At the same time, this generation may also encounter more than ever the labeling that, often despite the best of intentions, brands children with negative characteristics and learning disorders that can stigmatize and limit them, mapping out paths of mediocrity and poor performance that they are then destined to tread.

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