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A Few Flickers of Interest
The week has barely begun and Slate has managed to cater to a double header of parental preoccupations: autism and preschool.
I love Emily Bazelon's articles about family and educational issues, and this week she has an interesting piece about how much education is required for preschool teachers.
She isn't poking at any hot potatoes, leaving that instead to her colleague Gregg Easterbrook who has a follow up to an article he wrote a month ago about his suspicions regarding a connection between television watching and autism. Brows are furrowing.
And the Guardian just recently published a Best/Worst article (everyone's favorite kind) on places to give birth. Sweden is best, safest, happiest. Niger is the most dangerous, where women in their reproductive years have a 1 in 7 chance of dying as a result of a complication or infection related to pregnancy or childbirth. The details are heartbreaking, not just as a result of comparing these two countries to each other, of course, but seeing the facts laid out side to side highlights that awfulness and threat for women in Niger.
It was with some amusement that I realized last night that Aaron Sorkin must occasionally look at New York Magazine. In Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Ed Asner wanders off, he tosses this over his shoulder: "Tell your kids to learn Mandarin." A long ago article says that Mandarin is the language of choice for parents who want their tots to grow up to be competitive in the new global economies. It's a joke, of course, but it's one of those lies that tells the truth.
posted by Elise at 5:47 AM
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