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Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
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we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
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Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
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“In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
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We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
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Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
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Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
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education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
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shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached

The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.
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Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990
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in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,
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