Archive for April 10, 2008

what we’re reading

and occasionally watching too. Frontline reports on how the Internet is changing childhood in the first generation to grow up with the Internet – the entire program is available online. Elsewhere, Anne Trubek, a college professor, freelance writer, and parent writes on the increasing irrelevancy of handwriting. “Boys and girls, it’s time to put down your pencils.”  And from The Washington Post, Eli Saslow’s story on Pittsburgh’s 28-year old mayor – the youngest in modern US history. (Photo from pghgov.com.)