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gladwell dot com – the uses of adversity
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After years of worrying about issues like school funding levels, class size, and curriculum design, many reformers have come to the conclusion that nothing matters more than finding people with the potential to be great teachers. But there’s a hitch: no one knows what a person with the potential to be a great teacher looks like. The school system has a quarterback problem.
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Learning Shouldn’t Be Dictated by the School Calendar – washingtonpost.com
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We think of education as a year-to-year thing. Start school in late summer. Finish in late spring. Then repeat. Learning doesn’t work like that. Our fixation on the calendar is getting in the way.
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
They seem to be working for me. Glad to be able to help.