In Waiting for Superman
The Missing Link in School Reform (August 16, 2011) | Stanford Social Innovation Review - 1 views
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Three in 10 public school students fail to finish high school
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Graduation rates for students in some minority groups are especially dismal, with just over half of Hispanics (55.5 percent) and African Americans (53.7 percent) graduating with their class.1
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Why Are Finland's Schools Successful? | People & Places | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views
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Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.
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“This is what we do every day, prepare kids for life.”
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“Whatever it takes” is an attitude that drives not just Kirkkojarvi’s 30 teachers, but most of Finland’s 62,000 educators in 3,500 schools from Lapland to Turku—professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education
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How to DIY a degree | Marketplace From American Public Media - 1 views
Coaching a Surgeon: What Makes Top Performers Better? : The New Yorker - 0 views
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For my specialized cases, I’ve come to know most of the serious difficulties that could arise, and have worked out solution
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For the others, I’ve gained confidence in my ability to handle a wide range of situations, and to improvise when necessary.
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What we think of as coaching was, sports historians say, a distinctly American development
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