Are students unique? Is each and every human being different? Do we excel and delight in different things or are we each the same? Are we so similar that it's just a matter of making all education the same? Should education instruct everyone as if we are the same; rather than adjusting for unique variations? Despite ...
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR2009021501257.html Author: Randi Weingarten, President of the AFT "The countries that consistently outperform the United States on international assessments all have national standards, with core curriculum, assessments and time for professional development for teachers based on those standards... But there is little outrage over the uneven patchwork of academic standards for students in our 50 states ...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/education/26university.html?_r=1&ref=education Date: Jan 25, 2009 "An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People... “The idea is to take social networking and apply it to academia,” said the entrepreneur, Shai Reshef...“The open-source courseware is there, ...
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