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Creativity vs. Quants - NYTimes.com - 42 views

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Timothy Egan's essay examines the value of creative efforts vs quantifying and producing, particularly relating to the political penchant for reducing education to only quantifiable goals.

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Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake | Talk Video | TED - 39 views

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Creativity can be fueled by limitations.

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Creativity Becomes an Academic Discipline - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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An overview of some of the creativity courses being add to collegiate curricula. It also discusses what is taught and some of the methods employed.

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What Machines Can't Do - NYTimes.com - 71 views

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An Op-Ed piece by David Brooks that looks at what we can do that computers cannot do very well or at all. It points to five things that education might seek to develop in our students.

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Flipping the Switches on Facebook's Privacy Controls - NYTimes.com - 31 views

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A description of what FB can do with your actions, posts and clicks and how you can control what FB does with that information. Sort of.

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Pete Seeger, Songwriter and Champion of Folk Music, Dies at 94 - NYTimes.com - 14 views

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In the 'silent prison' of autism, Ido Kedar speaks out - latimes.com - 31 views

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A high-school student with autism becomes an advocate for a better understanding of autism.

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'What Is Good Teaching?' - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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Nocera discusses "The New Republic" - a documentary film about teaching in a new Brooklyn high school (new in 2006), and the trials of learning classroom management in this trying environment. His discussion focuses on the need to do a better job of training new teachers in classroom management.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Nocera discusses "The New Republic" - a documentary film about teaching in a new Brooklyn high school (new in 2006), and the trials of learning classroom management in this trying environment. His discussion focuses on the need to do a better job of training new teachers in classroom management.</div>

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Thinking for the Future - NYTimes.com - 60 views

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Though-provoking piece about the kinds of skills might be needed in a future dictated by mega-data analysis. It speculates how people might be needed to keep the "human" in "humanity."

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Why taking choir kept me from being a Valedictorian: Austin Channell at TEDxColumbus - ... - 44 views

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This is about more than just taking choir in high school - it is a fundamental problem in our educational system examined here by a high school senior. Only 12 minutes long. When my sons were in HS (they graduated in the mid 1990's), I remember their discussions of just exactly this problem. He offers some solutions, but no quick fixes.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is about more than just taking choir in high school - it is a fundamental problem in our educational system examined here by a high school senior. Only 12 minutes long. When my sons were in HS (they graduated in the mid 1990's), I remember their discussions of just exactly this problem. He offers some solutions, but no quick fixes.</div>

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'An Industry of Mediocrity' - NYTimes.com - 36 views

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A essay pointing to the need for better, more rigorous teacher training as an important way to create significant, meaningful improvement in American Education. The Keller points to some programs that offer hopeful solutions.

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Is Music the Key to Success? - NYTimes.com - 61 views

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It is amazing the number of people who attribute their success to a significant background in music. Granted, I am a music teacher, but there seems to be more and more articles/stories/studies that point to a correlation. It is not a particularly causal relationship (that is really hard to prove), but there is definitely a relation.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It is amazing the number of people who attribute their success to a significant background in music. Granted, I am a music teacher, but there seems to be more and more articles/stories/studies that point to a correlation. It is not a particularly causal relationship (that is really hard to prove), but there is definitely a relation.</div>

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Schools need to teach students to maintain attention - chicagotribune.com - 6 views

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Schwartz is a professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College. Here he presents a case for working at sustained attention in schools.

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What changed my mind about the Fourth of July - chicagotribune.com - 25 views

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An essay on freedom in America, and particularly in journalism and education

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BBC News - Active brain 'keeps dementia at bay' - 37 views

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Results of a study published in Neurology that adds weight to the idea that dementia onset can be delayed by lifestyle factors such as reading writing, exercise and diet.

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No Learning Without Feeling - NYTimes.com - 67 views

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An essay on an effect of Common Core Standards on the selection of literature to be studied, particularly in middle school

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The Common Core - Who's Minding the Schools? - NYTimes.com - 57 views

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An essay on the effects of implementing Common Core Standards and testing related to those standards.

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Why Do I Teach? - NYTimes.com - 68 views

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Essay about the value of teaching, particularly at the collegiate level

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Playing For All Kinds of Possibilities - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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A study explores the difference in problem solving between the "play" approach that children use, and the more structured approach used by adults.

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Teachers - Will We Ever Learn? - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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This essay is an attempt to provide an overview of evaluations and reforms in American education since the 1983 report, "A Nation at Risk". It goes on to point to directions that have largely been unexplored here, and ways that, in the author's opinion would facilitate more meaningful reform, reform that begets improvement.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This essay is an attempt to provide an overview of evaluations and reforms in American education since the 1983 report, "A Nation at Risk". It goes on to point to directions that have largely been unexplored here, and ways that, in the author's opinion would facilitate more meaningful reform, reform that begets improvement. </div>

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