Underscores the inverse relationship between a country's natural resources and its human ones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/friedman-pass-the-books-hold-the-oil.html

This blog links the concept of the 'flipped' classroom to Project Based Learning.
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-best-practices-andrew-miller

I don't know of any; I would also like to see it in action.

"SOLITUDE is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. Most of us now work in teams, in offices without walls, for managers who prize people skills above all. Lone geniuses are out. Collaboration is in..."

http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
Interesting speech on the developmental importance of solitude.

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We're very interested in the flipped classroom model; however, many have concerns about accessibility. Does anyone have any advice for serving students with limited access to technology at home?