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Education Innovator Milton Chen Added to Roster of IECA Conference Speakers

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA One of the nation’s most respected and sought-after education experts will open the IECA Philadelphia Conference on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Milton Chen is the senior fellow and past executive director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation. Chen and GLEF are widely recognized in educational circles for their work on … Read more »

IECA Members Meet at SBSA Annual Meeting

by Bar Clarke, IECA (Maine) At the recent Small Boarding School Association (SBSA) annual meeting, 32 IECA members were able to carve an hour out of their busy schedules to take place in a breakfast round table meeting. This was one in a series of meetings being held this year by the Task Force on … Read more »

Early Bird Registration Points to a Unique Networking Opportunity with IECs in Philadelphia

by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA Over the weekend our “early bird” conference registration period came to a close. These registrants responded to an electronic invitation and jumped in before the conference brochures were mailed. Typically we register about 500 – 550 people during this period. By Saturday morning we had over 750 registrants! Among … Read more »

‘Tiger Mother’ Book is More Interesting Than the Snippets You’ve Heard

But the book is not, as some have led you to believe, simply a recitation by Amy Chua of why her method of parenting—the Chinese way—is superior to permissive Western parenting. Rather it helps understand another mindset. One where allowing a child to stop when something gets tough reinforces failure, while she wanted her daughters to see they could achieve more than they imagined with hard work. More importantly it is a story of two very different daughters and how the “Chinese way” worked for one, but not the other. By book’s end it is clear that the book is really about discovering that children are different, requiring different motivators, parenting, and approaches. And that’s a story that resonates.

Amy Chua will be a featured speaker at the IECA Spring Conference this May in Philadelphia. Watch for conference registration to open in a few days.

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