Phone Free Schools 2
All this week I’m looking at the thought and planning that went into the Philadelphia area’s Delaware County Christian School establishment of their well-received and highly successful phone free school day policy. Administrators took seriously the Apostle Paul’s call in…
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Phone Free Schools 1
In his book “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt offers a series of recommendations for how to stop the epidemic of youth mental health issues. One of those recommendations is straightforward and blunt: no smartphones in schools. Fortuneately there’s…
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Episode 200: “School Cell Phone Policy” with Delaware County Christian School
Download the podcast as an .mp3 by clicking here.Access from Apple Podcasts. FURTHER RESOURCES Resources, links, or other helpful tools mentioned in the podcast: Delaware County Christian SchoolMark DixonChad FenleyComing In Out of the Wind: Of Cell Phones, and Learning,…
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Why College Kids Can’t Read
The title of a recent article in Atlantic magazine caught my eye. It reads, “the elite college students who can’t read books to read a book in college it helps to have read a book in high school.” In the…
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