Research
How can we prepare our children for a world we can’t envision? Jack Petrash makes the case that the best way to do that is to educate our children to develop three essential capacities: a capacity for vibrant and vigorous activity, a capacity for a sensitive and yet resilient emotional life, and a capacity for clear, focused, original, thinking.
Duke University researchers found that excessive screen media has a negative impact on growing children.
Several research studies indicate that elementary and younger children had better attention spans, academic success and behavior if they were given opportunities for daily physical activity and outside recess. February 23, 2009.
Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics reported students behaved better with a 15-minute break.
This book chapter explains the mind-body link, how exercise affects cognition and the importance of play, recess and physical education.
An article by David Ruenzel featuring Pine Hill's teacher, Arthur Auer. It is an extensive and lively account of how Waldorf education works, and what makes Pine Hill unique among Waldorf schools. October, 1995 (Vol. 7 No. 2). Reprints are available from the Pine Hill office.