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“Words had many meanings, he had learned, and whatever might be wholly true today might evolve to allow for different circumstances tomorrow. There was no falsehood in this, and no deliberate malice. It was an essential ability of humans to adapt to different circumstances, so characteristic of the species that it was probably ingrained in the DNA.”
― An Enemy in the Village
― An Enemy in the Village
“To be globally competitive, developed countries must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries. And that something is certainly not great test scores in a few subjects or the so-called basic skills.”4”
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
“By the time a child is assigned to my classroom, I’ve already begun to lay a foundation for a successful school year.”
― Learn Like a PIRATE: Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed
― Learn Like a PIRATE: Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed
“The over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators’ efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and deep subject-matter knowledge that will allow students to thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy,” the organization states.5”
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
“When children aren’t given the space to struggle through things on their own, they don’t learn to problem-solve very well. They don’t learn to be confident in their own abilities, and it can affect their self-esteem.”
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
― Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education
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