The book about the Harlem Children's Zone
The two or three books I read about TFA
- lesson: it's really hard to make a big change in a person's behavior if you only have partial control over their environment
2013 - How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
http://www.amazon.com/How-Children-Succ ... 2E4JF6B03Z
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2008.12 - Psychological Science in the Public Interest - Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence
http://psi.sagepub.com/content/9/3/105.abstract
2010.09 - Change Magazine - The Myth of Learning Styles
http://www.changemag.org/Archives/Back% ... -full.html
2014.02.13 - TimesHigherEducation.co.uk - Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/f ... ullarticle
2012.04.13 - KQED - Do Students Really Have Different Learning Styles?
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/04 ... ng-styles/
2013.09 - New York (Magazine) - In Conversation: Michael Bloomberg
Interviewer: On schools, given the issues involved, and the importance of the teachers union, was it bound to be contentious and hostile?
Bloomberg: I don’t blame everything on the union. The union’s job is not to educate the kids, it’s not to improve the school system; it’s to get the best working conditions, fewest hours, and the most money for its members. They will fight and die to prevent their members from ever being evaluated and pushed out of the job if the results aren’t there.
2013.12.30 - The Washington Post - Peter Thiel’s Graph of the Year
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/won ... -the-year/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989624
2014.04.01 - VICE - Expelled From Every Other School: Last Chance High (Episode 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-B_kmAebbQ
http://www.quora.com/Genius-and-Geniuse ... er-in-life
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/05 ... dical-care
2014.03.12 - Bill Gates @ The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/live/events/ ... 2014/2014/
~20:00 - Bill Gates talks about education in the US. There's a lot of really good information.
- Textbook makers have a big influence on the government.
- He points out that US is one of only two countries(?) that doesn't have a single national standard.
- Other countries focus on teaching kids a few things really, really well instead of teaching a lot of different things.
- He points out that the SAT tests on a lot of things that many high school students don't learn in school.
Example of having a school abroad that teaches people who hope to work in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/educa ... chool.html
- I'm thinking about doing this with Skinner: have another country where I have the school to keep down costs and not have to deal with regulation.
2014.07.28 - MIT - Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education
The report itself: http://web.mit.edu/future-report/TaskFo ... July28.pdf
Article about the report: http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/ ... es-instead
HackerNews discussion about the article/report: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8220500
2014.08.06 - Slate - Smash the System? The dangerous plan to make college cheaper by busting “the college cartel.”
2014.08.12 - OutDoor Magazine - We Don't Need No Education (re: unschooling)
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-ad ... -Wild.html
2014.08.13 - Slate - Why Students Prefer to Learn From a Machine
2014.08.15 - Slate - (re: Minerva) This For-Profit College Wants to Compete With the Ivies. And It’s a Brilliant Business Idea.
2014.08.16 - NYTimes Op-Ed by a UC Berkeley Prof - Teaching Is Not a Business
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opini ... iness.html
2014.08.18 - NYTimes - The Challenges of ‘Higher-Education Emergencies’
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/world ... ncies.html
2014.08.18 - Wired - New Minecraft Mod Teaches You Code as You Play
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/learntomod/
2014.08.30 - NYTimes - With Intensive Swim Lessons, a Man Attacks His Fear of Water
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/30/nyreg ... .html?_r=1
- distract people to keep them from getting scared. Mystery/Style said the same thing.
- "Difficult cases, you need to push them."
2014.09.04 - The Atlantic - The Future of College?
http://www.theatlantic.com/features/arc ... ge/375071/
- Talks about Minerva
- IMO Minerva is way off the mark, still thinking in the old way: one professor per 10 students, charging huge amounts of money up front, etc.
2014.09.29 - Substance.com - Most People With Addiction Simply Grow Out of It: Why Is This Widely Denied?
http://www.substance.com/most-people-wi ... ied/13017/
2014.11.02 - NYT - A Natural Fix for ADHD
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/opini ... -adhd.html
- it has some info to think about if you're going to be trying to create a better method of education
2014.12.05 - BBC - The Australian pupils who learn via webcam
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30191416
2015.06.16 - NYT - The Rise of Student Debt for Those Who Get Degrees
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/upsho ... 0002&abg=0
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