Checking the edu-sig archive, looks like indentation doesn't show this paragraph was quoted by me not written by me:

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I think the best way to understand these criticisms is to take a look at the language Pyret (pyret.org), a language that is being developed by Shriram Krishnamurthi (one of the educators quoted in the article) as an answer to the problems he sees with Python as an educational language. 
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Just thought I'd make that clearer.  Email clients and what shows up archivally are sometimes different.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2015-March/011213.html

In addition, I'm continuing to explore where in STEM the kind of curriculum writing we need best fits, pre-college.

Example post on that theme:

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=9724150

Kirby