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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We can't let educators off the hook | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views
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I think most teachers don’t even realize that there’s a decision to be made. It’s not a matter of choosing the red pill or the blue pill… if you don’t know that there are even two pills available as options
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Every day that I present for educators, I have a greater appreciate for how distorted the view is as seen through the eyes of a typical EduBlogger.
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Rather, it's that their priorities don't always line up with those of other progressive educators in and out of the blogosphere.
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Why Do Some People Learn Faster? | Wired Science | Wired.com - 0 views
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The physicist Niels Bohr once defined an expert as “a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
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Education isn’t magic. Education is the wisdom wrung from failure.
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Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes?
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