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As James Baldwin said, “The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions.”Learning is an innate, intuitive process: All students can and do learn. Before we can “model learning” for others, including our students and colleagues, we must engender the necessary transformation within ourselves.

Summaries

10 Video
Sal Khan
Khan Academy, 2023
9 Article

The Miseducation of Maria Montessori

Her method was meant for the public. Then it became a privilege.
Jessica Winter
The New Yorker, 2022
8 Book
David Joyner and Charles Isbell
MIT Press, 2021
8 Book

Long Life Learning

Preparing for Jobs that Don’t Even Exist Yet
Michelle Weise
Wiley, 2020
8 Article

Using Nature to Understand Nurture

Genetic associations show how parenting matters for children’s education
Philipp D. Koellinger and K. Paige Harden
Science, 2018
9 Report

Learning and Earning

Special Report on Lifelong Education
The Economist
The Economist, 2017
8 Book

The Smartest Kids in the World

And How They Got That Way
Amanda Ripley
Wall Street Journal Books, 2013
7 Article

Wired to Learn

How New Technologies Are Changing L&D Delivery
Donna L. Rhode
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, 2012
Book

Educated

A Memoir
Tara Westover
Random House, 2018
8 Report

Connected Learning

How Mobile Technology Can Improve Education
Darrell M. West
Brookings Institution, 2015
9 Book

How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD

Practical Techniques, Strategies, and Interventions
Sandra F. Rief
Jossey-Bass, 2005
8 Book

The Learner-Centered Classroom and School

Strategies for Increasing Student Motivation and Achievement
Barbara L. McCombs and Jo Sue Whisler
Jossey-Bass, 1997

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