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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

Edsurge

But in 2006, he gained recognition for something that no other TED speaker in history has done. So, why then is personalized learning a non-negotiable? A huge misconception amongst adults, according to Robinson, is that kids don’t like to learn. On the contrary, “my conviction is that kids love to learn.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. For more stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn subscribe to the Educate podcast. It wasn’t always this way.

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Belonging and Believing: Transforming Remedial Math at Community Colleges

MindShift

The stark number of students not prepared for college work presents a two-fold dilemma for community colleges, one that is both financial and self-defeating, eating at the very purpose of community colleges’ existence. Their primary focus: convincing students that they can learn.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

In a presentation a few years ago, a top education-department administrator, Chief of Literacy Kerry Laster, wrote, “We retain students despite overwhelming research and practical evidence that retention fails to lead to improved student outcomes.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Canadian schools succeed in nudging one minority group to and through college

The Hechinger Report

The price of this free lunch, under a ceiling designed to look like a medicine wheel in the new Gordon Oakes Red Bear Student Centre at the University of Saskatchewan, is to listen to a presentation about campus mental health services. Patti McDougall, vice provost for teaching and learning, University of Saskatchewan. Davidson said.

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