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I n the links this week we start with a nice story about how architecture can dramatically change the school environment:
Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
New York City just released teacher performance assessments for 12,000 teachers based an what most consider very flawed data. Here even Bill Gates criticizes the release:
Bohemian Travelers debunk myths about living and learning on the road as an unschooling family:
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I was recently asked to write a column for a national education magazine. When the editor told me the theme [...]
Is it possible to have caring education or a meaningful democracy in a culture that is fundamentally competitive, materialistic, and [...]
Albert Einstein once said that it is a miracle curiosity survives formal education. Unfortunately, it often doesn’t. When my husband [...]
“You must be so patient.” If I have heard that once, I’ve heard it a hundred times. I must be [...]
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It was a cloudy day in April, 2004. It was cloudy in my mind. And storm clouds were brewing over [...]
As I pursued research for my book on the 1960s-era free school movement, I came across numerous references to the [...]
If you’re an American teen or young adult, you’re a pioneer. You may not think of yourself as a pioneer, [...]
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