On Friday, April 27, 2012 at 10:55 a.m., we students of Western International High School will be starting our first day of class at Southwest Detroit Freedom School at Clark Park, across from our beloved school which we were suspended from. After over 300 of us staged a student walkout on Wednesday April 25, 2012, over 150 [...]
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Forget what you know – knowledge in a fresh perspective by Jacob Barnett
Jacob Barnett is an American mathematician and child prodigy. At 8 years old, Jacob began sneaking into the back of college lectures at IUPUI. After being diagnosed with autism since the age of two and placed in his school’s special ed. program, Jacob’s teachers and doctors were astonished to learn he was able to teach [...]
What motivates individuals and how this impacts education
In this RSA Animate video, Dan Pink discusses what really motivates us as individuals. If we were to take this information and add it to alternative education resources and knowledge how would we see it working? What would be different? What things would change?
