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Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms
In this talk from RSA Animate, Sir Ken Robinson lays out the link between 3 troubling trends: rising drop-out rates, schools' dwindling stake in the arts, and ADHD. An important, timely talk for parents and teachers.
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Sal Khan: Rethinking Education
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Build a School in the Cloud
Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments, and learn more at ted.com/prize.
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Love Gov: An Education in Debt
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Common Core takes a hit: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo’s task force recommends overhaul
Gov. Cuomo's task force calls for change in standards and testing.
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Kids can teach themselves
Speaking at LIFT 2007, Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own -- and then taught other kids. He asks, what else can children teach themselves?
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Think about it: why budding philosophers shouldn't sit exams
Formal tests can’t measure complex ideas and creative thinking – so the University of Essex has ditched them altogether
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What was the recipe for Le Cordon Bleu's US school closings?
It was announced this week that the culinary school is closing its doors in the US. Are American culinary students better off in a classroom or restaurant kitchen?
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6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016
The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part.
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Richard Branson on The End of Average
Richard Branson talks about Professor Todd Rose's book The End of Average and refers to his own experience as a high school dropout.
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Turning the Tide: Inspiring Concern For Others And The Common Good Through College Admissions
Making Caring Common's report with recommendations for reducing achievement pressure and leveling the playing field in college admissions.
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Online, All Students Sit in the Front Row
Bill Gates went to Arizona to see what the future of college might look like.
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‘What passes for acceptable school choice rhetoric is frightening’
An eyewitness account of a National School Choice Week event. By Valerie Strauss. (Jan. 30)
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Why DeRay Mckesson’s Baltimore Campaign Looks Like It Comes Right Out of Teach for America’s Playbook
As Mckesson launches his outsider candidacy for mayor of Baltimore, many worry his roots in the education privatization movement put the city’s public schools in peril. By Drew Franklin.
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Solving the Mystery of the Schools
In recent years, American public education has been swamped by bad ideas and policies. Our national leaders, most of whom were educated at elite universities and should know better, have turned our most important domestic duty into a quest for higher scores on standardized tests. By Diane Ravitch.
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Learn math without fear, Stanford expert says
Professor Jo Boaler says students most effectively learn "math facts" working on problems they enjoy, rather than through exercises and drills they fear. Timed testing and blind memorization damage children's experience of math, she says.
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Why students make silly mistakes in class (and what can be done)
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
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Advanced-Stage Charter Syndrome
What “Maturity” Means to the Charter Movement. By Nancy Flanagan.
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Why are South African Students Protesting?
A look at what has sparked the biggest student protests to hit South Africa since apartheid ended in 1994.
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Confession of a 'Teach for Malaysia' Teacher
A teacher's plea for more educated Malaysians to try teaching at least once.
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