Resources

Education

• Do Schools Kill Creativity?
• Changing Education Paradigms
• How to Escape Education’s Death Valley Assessment Without High-Stakes Testing
• The Creativity Crisis Children Learning to Read Later Catch up to Children Reading Earlier

Developmentally Appropriate Academics

• Summer-born Struggle: Why August Children Suffer at School
• School Odds Stacked Against Summer Babies Kids Haven’t Changed; Kindergarten Has
• What Learning Cursive Does for Your Brain
• Reading at Five: Why?
• The Play Deficit

Music

• Early Childhood Music and Brain Development
• The Benefits of Music for the Brain
• Musical Training Shapes Brain Anatomy and Affects Function
• Just a Few Years of Early Musical Training Benefits the Brain Later in Life

Recommended Reading

• Waldorf Education: A Family Guide, by Pamela J. Fenner and Mary Beth Rapisardo
• Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, by Jack Petrash