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HARVARD EDUCATION LETTER

Waldorf Education in Public Schools
By Laura Pappano
Harvard Graduate School of Education | 11/07/2011

Educators adopt-and adapt-this developmental, arts-rich approach.

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GRADING THE DIGITAL SCHOOL

A Silicon Valley School That Doesn’t Compute
By MATT RICHTEL
New York Times | 10/24/2011

The Waldorf School’s computer-free environment has become a draw for parents at high-tech companies like Google.

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CLINICAL REPORT

The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
By Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MSEd
American Academy of Pediatrics

Play is so important to optimal child development that it has been recognized by the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights as a right of every child.

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What is a Waldorf School?

What is a Waldorf School?

A promotional video made for the Steiner Fellowship in the UK. It explains some of the philosophies behind the educational approaches of Rudolf Steiner (also known as Waldorf) Schools.

"When Waldorf students reach us at the college level, they are grounded broadly and deeply and have a remarkable enthusiasm for learning. Such students possess the eye of discoverers and the compassionate heart of the reformer, which, when joined to a task, can change the planet.”

Arthur Zajonc, PhD
Associate Professor of Physics Amherst