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Are Sweden’s For-Profit Voucher-Funded Schools that Promote Creativity the Future of Learning?
Good Magazine has a nice profile of for-profit chain Vittra’s newest school, with the headline “Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?” The article concludes, The open nature of the campus and the unusual furniture arrangements reflect the school’s … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, private equity firms, school choice, Sweden, Vittra, vouchers
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If We Had a Way to Increase IQ and Develop the Prefrontal Cortex of Inner City Youth Would We Implement It?
One of the founders of Montessori MadMen, a group of fathers who are passionate about promoting Montessori education, loved “The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation” but was concerned that in an education market, the poor would be underserved: I … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Graham Bell, Beavis and Butthead, Bronze Doors Academy, Brookings Institution, Burt Kaufman, Calculus, Chubb and Moe, Cornerstone Schools, CSMP, EM, Hellen Keller, IMACS, IQ, Jaime Escalante, Montessori, Montessori Madmen, prefrontal cortex, school choice, socratic practice, Stand and Deliver, The Winston Academy, Thomas Edison, Timken High School, war on poverty, William Kilpatrick
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School Choice as a Response to Robert Frank’s Case for the Rational Libertarian
While I’ve not read Robert Frank’s most recent book, The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good, based on reviews it seems to be an elaboration of an argument that Frank has been making for thirty years: That competition … Continue reading
Waldorf Educators Leaders in Promoting School Choice in New York
I’ve long believed that the most stalwart advocates of school choice should be those educators committed to create a better world through healthier, more human culture. Through years of experience as an educator myself working to create better culture, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Ayn Rand, Gary Lamb, Montessori, school choice, teachers' unions, tuition tax credits, Waldorf
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Head-On Collisions Leading to a Century of Failed School Reform
A friend of mine who happens to be an expert in educational technology, Jon Madian, sent me an interview in which he committed a mistake very similar to that committed by Seymour Papert, and 99% of those who aspire to … Continue reading
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Tagged Daniel Pink, Diane Ravitch, Germany, homeschooling, Horace Mann, Madian, Montessori, Papert, school choice, Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson on Public Education: “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical”
Many people believe that the American founding fathers believed that public education was crucial for democracy, and thus that “we” have an obligation to maintain the government-financed, teachers’ union controlled system that we have today. David W. Kirkpatrick is a … Continue reading
The Heroism and Tragedy of Democrats for School Choice
I just spoke with someone from Democrats for Education Reform. Their statement of principles is nothing less than heroic: A first-rate system of public education is the cornerstone of a prosperous, free and just society, yet millions of American children … Continue reading
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The Purpose of Education 