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Vonnegut's reflection is a breath of fresh air in an achievement-crazy culture - and particularly welcome in contrast to the grit mindset that says kids must stick with one thing until they master it (even if joylessly) rather than sampling a broad range of experiences.
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One of many great learning experiences @ClarkStSchool Clark Street Community School students assist older adults with music and memory madison.com/wsj/news/local/e… via @WiStateJournal
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The current Teen Vogue features umpteen articles about who was wearing what at the Golden Globes. And also this carefully researched piece about teachers who are ditching grades: is.gd/T6HzcQ
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“The essential thing measured by school is whether or not you are good at school.”
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“If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run education based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised if that's what it does.” ~ Ken Robinson @SirKenRobinson
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Imagine if the idea of libraries was proposed today
Advocates: Free public libraries would create vibrant communities
Conservatives: Government takeover of books = real life 1984
Corporate centrists: Let’s means test libraries
Media: Divisive library issue a threat to Dems
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You cannot call yourself a “culturally responsive” educator if your purpose is to raise test scores rather than to liberate young people’s spirits and ignite their intellectual curiosity.
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“It is almost impossible now to be a trustful parent of a child in a typical public or private school.” psychologytoday.com/blog/fre…
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“Ninth graders who have spent their whole life being told what to learn, some of them don’t even know what they’re interested in because they haven’t been given the opportunity.” hechingerreport.org/intrinsi…
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A 1-hour talk I gave in April about living in a society that doesn't really like children, and the hows & whys of creating a kid-friendly community - with digressions about time-out, play, homework, BGUTI, and the rage over "helicopter parenting": is.gd/Uc6vkM
The Deficit Lens of the 'Achievement Gap' Needs to Be Flipped. Here's How disq.us/t/3gffnd5
Shoot I messed up the link to the article Here is the right one edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/…
equitable development and on giving educators formative feedback about the learning environments they're creating for students... They say what gets measured gets improved, so let's start to measure opportunity." 3/4
We need more school's like Clark Street Community School - a School of Opportunity schoolsofopportunity.org/rec…
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1/3 Leann Birch (1946-2019) showed that when kids are rewarded for eating an unfamiliar food (vs. just invited to try it), they come to dislike that food later. More proof of how rewards predictably lower interest in whatever one has to do to get them:
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Peter Gray: "For most people human rights have increased, but for children they have shrunk."
"Children today are far more deprived of liberty than they were when I was a child more than 60 years ago, or when my parents were children 90 years ago. And children are suffering because of that deprivation." @LetGrowOrg @FreeRangeKids @PsychToday
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@JesterBennett none of us could have said it better! We are a better learning community with you in it!!! @ClarkStSchool #listentostudents podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…