How to Learn for Doing: Take a Gap Year!
Increasingly, people are realizing that the true value of education lies not in the degree, but rather the student’s ability to use...
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Jul 14, 20174 min read
Technology Will Not Eat Teachers
In this age of digital everything, the concept of Teacher Appreciation Week may seem quaint and perhaps even outmoded. As we explore new...
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Jul 14, 20173 min read
Is College-As-We-Know-It a Bargain? Even “for Free”?
As Andrew Cuomo takes a deserved victory lap for making New York the first tuition-free state for students of certain income, I’m taking...
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Jul 14, 20173 min read
For free. For everyone. Forever. For $23,000 a year?
The news that one of my heroes of learning, Sal Khan, opened a brick-and-mortar school in Silicon Valley in 2015 made me push "pause."...
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Jul 14, 20174 min read
Why Send Your Child to School?
20 years ago, when my first child was about 18 months old, we joined our first “Mommy and Me” class and thus began a couple of decades of...
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Jul 14, 20174 min read
Now that Minecraft Is So Popular with the Schools, Will Kids Still Love Learning from It?
This is the game that, among other distinguished awards, has won: Most Popular Game Beta: Over 10 million players between December 20,...
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Aug 26, 20153 min read
3 Ways to Avoid School-as-Usual
50.1 million children will attend school in grades PK-12 this fall, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Of those,...
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Aug 24, 20155 min read
Can We Teach Someone to Be More Self-Directed?
If you are familiar with the story of Timothy Doner, the kid who taught himself 20 languages, you are probably not only impressed by his...
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Aug 23, 20153 min read
What Did You Do This Summer?
When people ask “How’s your summer going?” it reflects a paradigm built around a traditional school year calendar but which applies to a...
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Aug 23, 20152 min read
Start AIMMING for Success
It’s time to start AIMMing for success. AIMM is a simple acronym for Academics Integrated with Making and Mentoring, a straightforward...
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