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Kenneth Danford, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens in Sunderland, Massachusetts, gave a talk at the Thrive 2020 Conference held in Guernsey, UK, on …
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Parents send their children to school with the best of intentions, believing that formal education is what kids need to become productive, happy adults... Read article …
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I’m a research bio-psychologist with a PhD, so I’ve done lots of school. I’m a pretty good problem-solver, in my work and in the rest of my life, but that has little to do with the schooling I’ve …
“We tell a story about the power of learning that is very different from what we practice in traditional models of school,” says Steve Hargadon... Read article …
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One December morning, Ellie, my kindergartener, woke up and, on hearing that school was canceled because of imminent snowfall, decided to draw a picture for her teacher of a gingerbread man missing a …
Fed up with the restrictions at his conventional school, 10-year-old Scott Gray convinced his parents to transfer him to one where children control their own education... Read article By Luba …
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José Urbina López Primary School sits next to a dump just across the US border in Mexico. The school serves residents of Matamoros, a dusty, sunbaked city of 489,000 that is a flash point in the war …
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Tune in on Talk 910am San Francisco with Gil Gross. On September 4th. …
Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work. Read article. By Peter Gray. …
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