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“The secret of quality is love,” Avedis Donabedian, a professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, expert…
I was listening to Noam Chomsky on ranking and the dangers of standardized testing. This is some of what he…
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By now you have probably been sent a link to, or have even read, Playing to Learn – Susan Engel’s…
Many years ago I wrote an article with the title The Carrot and the Cattleprod. It’s so long ago that…
A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…
It's the 21st century. So what happens when we shut children down and disconnect them from wonder, creativity, curiosity and…
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