AI Learning And LeadershipSteven Pinker lauds reason, but people need freedom — this might not end wellverified_publisherSalon - By Simon McCarthy-JonesThe dictates of reason tell us what we ought to do to survive and flourish. But we neither have to like them nor obey them. As Oscar Wilde put it, we are rational animals that always lose their temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. We rebel. We do so because we …
AI Learning And LeadershipWho wrote the Common Core Standards? The Common Core 24wordpress.comWe have all heard stories about who decided on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that are now holding students and teachers hostage to a narrow …
AI Learning And LeadershipHigh-Tech for Brain Training: Top 12 News in 2014huffingtonpost.com - Alvaro FernandezUnless you live in a cave, you are well aware of all the growing interest in, and controversies around, the topic of brain training, especially …
AI Learning And LeadershipPublic education, private profits: Inside a charter school power broker's million-dollar scamverified_publisherSalon - By Marian WangIn late February, the North Carolina chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation — a group co-founded by the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers — embarked on what it billed as a statewide tour of charter schools, a cornerstone of the group's education agenda. The first — and it turns out, …
AI Learning And LeadershipIn protest against Common Core, Portland School Board will consider refusing to set yearly achievement goalsoregonlive.com - Kelly Housetest protest.jpg Cleveland High School students Ian Jackson and Pele Warnock led more than 70 others on a walkout to protest standardized …
AI Learning And LeadershipCommon Core: The Real Issues (Opinion)edweek.org - Marc TuckerThere has been much Sturm und Drang about the Common Core in recent months, but it looks to me as though the Common Core, in most states, is safe for …