Book Riff
August 2012
The Bad Habits You Learn in School
And it's not about smoking. John Coleman via Harvard Business Review Read more
Deborah Kenny on Morning Joe: "these types of things cannot be measured by a standardized test."
"You have to empower teachers and the only was is to have real authentic accountability." "First of all, the most important things cannot be measured objectively." (referring to how a student speaks or writes) ". . . these types of things cannot be measured by a standardized test." - both quotes by Deborah Kenny, CEO, Harlem Village Academies Read moreIn fact, educators and administrators cannot justify giving the arts an important position in the curriculum unless they understand that the arts are the most powerful means of strengthening the perceptual component without which productive thinking is impossible in any field of endeavor.Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking
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