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High Conflict: How to break the spell?
This is a true story about two grown women who stopped talking to each other. For 30 years. Over a piece of cheese.
A century ago, two sisters named Anna and Maria immigrated to America from Italy, raising their families side by side in central New Jersey.
Then one day in the 1970s, Anna went back to Italy to visit. While she was there, someone gave her a hunk of good Italian provolone, the authen Read more of this blog post »
A century ago, two sisters named Anna and Maria immigrated to America from Italy, raising their families side by side in central New Jersey.
Then one day in the 1970s, Anna went back to Italy to visit. While she was there, someone gave her a hunk of good Italian provolone, the authen Read more of this blog post »
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“I’d been looking around the world for clues as to what other countries were doing right, but the important distinctions were not about spending or local control or curriculum; none of that mattered very much. Policies mostly worked in the margins. The fundamental difference was a psychological one. The education superpowers believed in rigor. People in these countries agreed on the purpose of school: School existed to help students master complex academic material. Other things mattered, too, but nothing mattered as much.”
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
“Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.”
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire country did on PISA. There seemed to be some kind of ghetto effect: once kids were labeled and segregated into the lower track, their learning slowed down.”
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
― The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way
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