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Intercultural Center for Research in Education (INCRE) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dedicated to research, development and technical assistance with the purpose of promoting quality and equity of education in the United States and internationally through projects that integrate humanistic education, science, technology and education for the preservation of life on our planet.

"In recent years, Mr. Perl said, his father traveled in India and Japan lecturing about creativity and his concern that science education was becoming too rigid. He urged students to keep a journal and write down crazy ideas. But he also urged them and his colleagues not to get too far ahead of the fundamental truth of experiment in science. In a blog post last year he wrote: "The time scale for physics progress is a century not a decade. There are no decade-scale solutions to worries about the rate of progress of fundamental physics knowledge. My advice is (a) study calculus and machine shop in high school and (b) have a long life as advised in the old song by buttoning up your overcoat and eating an apple every day. "On the other hand," he continued, "occasional scanning of the obituaries in The New York Times indicates that financiers live longer than physicists, so perhaps start a hedge fund in high school.""

Self-knowledge and effective relationships are the foundations on which good care, quality improvement, and organizational change occur.

"You are told: use policies that work. And you are told: RCTs - randomized controlled trials - will show you what these are. That's not so. RCTs are great, but they do not do that for you. They cannot alone support the expectation that a policy will work for you" [i.e., here, not there where the RCT was done].

By Peter Taylor "Some people suggest that race is coded in genes and genes determine IQ test scores. A slightly less simple but similar supposition is that differences among races are associated with differences in genes that people have, which, in turn, are associated with differences in IQ test scores. Yet everyone has a sense that such claims are controversial. What should you think about them?"