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With Universal Basic Income, what might be possible for public schools?
This week, Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey pledged $1 billion for the purpose of addressing immediate coronavirus needs and then, longer term, supporting initiatives related to girls’ health and education and universal basic income (UBI). He’s tracking the donations on this public Google spreadsheet, which, at the time of this writing, 67 people are …
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Supporting Your Secondary Students at Home
If parent/caregiver and student have established a workable routine that seems reasonably productive and sustainable, hurry up and do nothing different whatsoever. Parents and caregivers tend to know their students best, and any advice a school or anyone else gives ought to be taken as an offering that can be rejected. On the other hand, …
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Order and Progress: Education Spending in Brazil
I’ve been wondering about the extent to which Brazil, as a country and as a people, values public education. In my casual reading, I’ve come across suggestions that wealthy Brazilians are unenthusiastic about public education and therefore send their children to private schools and use their influence to minimize public funding. I’ve also encountered the …
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Three Pillars for Coaching Educators
Superintendents, school leaders, instructional coaches, and experienced teachers must support and develop talent to improve student experiences and outcomes. One avenue for addressing this need is to establish coaching partnerships. How might one create conditions for these learning partners to engage in productive and fertile processes that generate their own momentum? What follows are three …
Teachers as Designers in The Coming Machine Age
The emergence of blended learning, ed tech, and online secondary schools might cause educators to wonder what their role might be in the future, when machines rule the world.
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Fighting Fire With Arson: A Response to Yale Professor Robert J. Schiller’s misguided but not unexpected piece on the housing bubble, titled “Infectious Exuberance” and appearing in the July/August 2008 Atlantic.
Shiller believes our two recent “epidemics of financial optimism” (the dot-com and real estate bubbles) could be followed by a more disastrous financial epidemic if “irrational pessimism and mistrust” manage to spread from the lips and fingertips of sourpuss chicken-little financial pundits to the wider population. According to the author this third epidemic is easily …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]