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Education Reform & The Montessori Model

The need for Education Reform isn’t debated. What will be reformed? How will learning be improved? What are our education priories? These are the questions and the answers being debated. If anyone has read the book Switch you know about the term “Bright Spots”. For those who haven’t, the idea is to look for areas [...]

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Understanding What Educations Reform Is

By far the most eloquent and knowledgeable thinkers and speakers on the subject of education reform Sir Ken Robinson. Systems that grow to the size and weight of the one we have cannot adapt in time for meaningful reform to take place. The system needs to be decentralized and upgraded in more natural ways that allow for independent thinking, creative thinking, critical thinking and group collaboration, which will require leadership skills.

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Motivating Kids To Go Back To School

Transition time again, the kids are back in school and there are already grumblings and protests being staged in our house. Most of us have only dreamt of the peaceful satisfaction of having kids who’ve done their homework, are motivated to go to school, practiced to the extent of their abilities and pursue worthwhile interests. [...]

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3 Schooling Ideas to Kill Education Reform

1.) Race to the Top 2.) The Teacher Incentive Fund 3.) Charter Schools These are the three programs the Department of Education and Washington are hanging their REFORM hat on. But when we look at what these programs do it is more of the same thing to an even greater degree. Isn’t one of the [...]

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Schools Are Imploding

Schools Are Imploding In the school district where we live, the school district is the largest property owner. Not in the number of acres but in the overall value of real property, the school district holds more real estate than anyone or any company. And they want more! The few other schools districts I’ve looked [...]

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My Baby Can Read!

Really? That’s great. I was up late reading and decided to turn on the weather station get the updated forecast for the morning. Before I could flip the channel I was hooked by a commercial that claims to teach babies to read. Very well done, brilliant! My first question is, why? Why would you need [...]

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Nature versus Nurture

Nature versus Nurture Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s first cousin and an aristocrat of the 1600s, first believed that all men were created equal, possessing essentially the same potential for greatness or misfortune. He believed that until his cousin, Darwin, persuaded him otherwise. Darwin, being member of the aristocracy found himself embarrassed by thought that royalty [...]

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Miracles & Bright Kids

Bright Spots Make Miracles We parents need to force ourselves to focus our attention and comments on the positive things our kids do. That doesn’t mean we ignore the problem areas. However, we might address the problems a little differently. Remember when your parents lectured you on ….? Did it help? Did you resent it? [...]

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