How Will Today’s Lessons Learned Impact the Future?
In the cartoon accompanying this piece, Henry Payne transforms our concerns over the impact of changing values and gun violence into a...
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Aug 16, 20173 min read
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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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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Aug 23, 20154 min read
Maker Spaces and Digital Fabrication Democratize Learning
As Paulo Blikstein noted “Innovation and collaborative problem-solving are core skills for virtually any career, and yet those are the...
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Mar 3, 20154 min read
Learning How to Do Good
Social entrepreneurism is a goal to which many of us aspire, but how do you even start? The team at Goodnik has made it their business to...
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Mar 3, 20154 min read
What Kids May Be Teaching Us When They Opt Out of School
When a child opts out of school, it can be a very unsettling experience not only to that child but to the entire family. We are...
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Nov 4, 20143 min read
This is a School that Johnny Wants to Attend
I worry about Johnny, so I decided to design an optimal school for him. This school has: More material that is introduced at home for...
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