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I no longer subscribe to The Atlantic, but a friend sent me a link to Caitlin Flanagan's derogatory article about the fresh food movement in California schools and a response to it. Flanagan claims that the Alice-Waters-inspired movement to have students grow food and incorporate the experience into their studies is geared toward keeping the children of immigrants down on the farm. Parents and teachers disagree.
I haven't seen the foods-in-schools first hand (nor has Flanagan), but in terms of educational methodology, I think it's excellent. When students participate in an actual experience, and their reading, math, writing, and science are related to it, it works out much better than when they're learning abstractions unrelated to the real world. And that's the testimony of the participants in similar efforts.
I haven't seen the foods-in-schools first hand (nor has Flanagan), but in terms of educational methodology, I think it's excellent. When students participate in an actual experience, and their reading, math, writing, and science are related to it, it works out much better than when they're learning abstractions unrelated to the real world. And that's the testimony of the participants in similar efforts.