I’m not sure about here in the UK, but where I teach (in California, when I’m not on the PS10), something has gone off in our approach to teaching in the last 10-15 years. When I compare the ways that I was taught to be a student, how to read, what to consider, and what I see in my students now, there is a marked distance—and not only in our age as I acknowledge I am getting older! (more…)