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I thought this blog was fascinating because it describes ways in which school for the children of military personnel are striving to meet not only educational, but specialized mental and emotional needs associated with frequent moves and deployments. I this way, it echoes ways all schools can try to meet specialized needs outside of pure education to have happier, more well-rounded students.

This is a site which sets high goals for a future educational system that is collaborative on a global scale, up-to-date in current technology, and focused on the holistic growth of all children.

A TED talk from Sugata Mitra about education as a self-organizing process; includes information from some incredible social experiments with non-English speaking learners in India and elsewhere.

More Sugata Mitra; an overlapping presentation with his other (linked) talk. Fighting the concept of design as the most effective instrument of education.

This article questions why children begin collaborating with each other in kindergarten but it can be very difficult for teachers to coax any respones from students in the classroom.

Because this is relevant to everything.