Constructing an Alternative Vision of Either the Natural or Human World As...
Somehow the Beatles song “Say You Want a Revolution” just popped into my head as I was typing that title and preparing to give you the full quote from “The Degree Qualifications Profile” published by...
View ArticleEmbrace and Seize Technology’s Potential to Capture the Hearts and Minds of...
That quote comes again from the Texas Vision Statement that we started talking about in the previous post. “Hearts and Minds”–that unconscious level that motivates and guides human behavior. No wonder...
View ArticleIs P-20 Education for Collective Democratic Participation Really a Good...
Sometimes when I have to point out the problem with a proposed solution that everyone has become excited about I feel like Scrooge. The panacea for education is found at last and then I point out that...
View ArticleBuilding a Compelling Future Political Coalition Around Advocacy for Keeping...
Former slave Frederick Douglass once said that “education . . . means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by...
View ArticleMaking Race and Class Oppression the Locomotives Driving the Positive School...
That does seem confusing doesn’t it? Instead of transmitting the knowledge gathered through the Ages so this current generation of students can mull that over and build on it, we seem to be embarking...
View ArticleNow More Than Five Years Into An Attempt to Help Organize A Near-Total...
Now won’t Performance Assessments and a total alteration of the nature of education come in really handy for such a goal? That title is from an August 7, 2012 presentation in Portland, Oregon by Paul...
View ArticleWhat Happens When the Hidden Goal of Education Is Interrupting Pre-existing...
What if you were a hungry pioneer in a new town in the middle of nowhere in the 19th century and it was a long, cruel winter? Inexperienced you did not appreciate the danger of eating the seed corn...
View ArticleSpecifying New Education, Economic and Social Models as the Final Act of the...
Can you imagine what your teenage and early 20s would have been like if you got a Get Out of Jail Free card for your 15th birthday? And were then told it could be used 5 times or, better yet, unlimited...
View ArticleStanding Still As the Yoke Is Fastened: Student Codes of Conduct to Now Build...
Now I considered making that title a bit longer with the addition of the phrase ‘as a State of Mind.’ People grasping the essence of what I have been describing in my book or this blog will frequently...
View ArticleDisguising the Rise of the Oligarchs Via Competencies, New Values, a Thinking...
Unapproved personal knowledge is a meme-buster. If you are not sure why I say that think of the images of the South Carolina flooding and then attach the descriptions of “freak weather-related” vs...
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