In Waiting for Superman
Crash Course - 0 views
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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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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Workers, soldiers or nomads - what does the Gates Foundation want from our ed... - 0 views
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The why of education should be the first question that we answer in any discussion in the field.
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Sadly, it seems to be very difficult to say anything about “what learning is” and “why we educate our children”.
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but it’s pretty tough to create a system that both trains people to do what they are told and to also critically assess their culture.
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