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Thanks to a generation of massive amounts of standardized testing, our students conceive education primarily as a tool for determining a ranking. The Obama administration’s policy is even called Race to the Top. We have the most read columnist in the country telling us how important it is to raise “standards” so our students don’t…
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Several months ago, I was at a school event where a very young black girl was standing shyly off to the side as I was chatting with some 6th grade students after my presentation. She gave me her notebook and asked me to sign it, which I was glad to do. It was a book…
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The greatest predictor of intellectual success is the emotional stability of the home – not the presence of toys or devices built to improve infant cognitive development. John Medina (via azspot)
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good: good: Infographic: The Rise of Millennials Living at Home A recent Pew Research analysis found that 21.6 million America’s young people—that’s 36 percent of Millennials (loosely categorized as those between the ages of 18 to 31)—live with their parents at home. With the highest percentage in at least four decades, the study attributed the…
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Even luckier, your mom decides to stay home during your formative cognitive years so she can read you storybooks on the sofa, and help you play alphabet building blocks on the carpet. Except, in that case, she hasn’t been able to earn anything in the free-enterprise system enabling her to put aside for your college…
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fastcompany: Steve Matteson has designed some of the most ubiquitous typefaces in the world, and engineered versions of Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier for Microsoft. Here, he reveals why every letter you see looks the way it does. Read More>
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William Gibson, novelist I first saw La Jetée in a film history course at the University of British Columbia, in the early 1970s. I imagine that I would have read about it earlier, in passing, in works about science fiction cinema, but I doubt I had much sense of what it might be. And indeed,…
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bookporn: Two beautiful cartoons to say goodbye to Gabriel García Márquez. by Fisgón and Helguera.
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shadow27: No Maps For These Territories, a documentary of William Gibson. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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openroadmedia: The question is…why AREN’T you reading Samuel R. Delany? 10 Reasons Why Everyone Should Read Samuel R. Delany: