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Wildly Audacious Goals and the Power of One

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This project took a detour when I realized that, in the United States, we exist within a system that has not been designed to educate the individual. Bodo recognized the vast number of refugee children (and girls in particular) who have no access to the school system of the country from which they have fled.

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Metanoia- the journey of changing one’s mind, heart, self, or way of life (basically what #edu is all about!)

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The problem with education reform is that we keep attempting to change surface level systems and hoping for deep systemic change as a result. Assumptions that we make in education (this is just a sampling, but you’ll get the idea): Everyone needs to exit the school system with the same skill set and knowledge.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Paul School System.” “ University of California president Janet Napolitano announced Wednesday that she wants the system to explore ways to guarantee admission to academically eligible students in the state’s community colleges ,” says Inside Higher Ed. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.