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jody cooper
Jan 9, 20222 min read
The Difference Between Thought and Speech
Talking With Children is So Important I like how the book I’m reading, about knowledge-construction or meaning-making, describes the...
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jody cooper
Apr 12, 20213 min read
An Unschooling Curriculum?
When Sara’s phone rang, she was surprised to find it was Ryan. He was at the local community college taking his first math test that...
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jody cooper
Mar 29, 20213 min read
Kimberly: I Love Creating my Own Curriculum
Selecting or building a curriculum is not everyone's favorite chore. Kimberly, however, has a tremendous love of curricular content. She...
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jody cooper
Jan 13, 20211 min read
I Wish I Had Written the Following
Ravenous Butterflies “Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this:...
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jody cooper
Jan 6, 20211 min read
A Brief History of Education
"When we see that children everywhere are required by law to go to school, that almost all schools are structured in the same way, and...
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jody cooper
Jan 3, 20211 min read
Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How?
This article, Is Real Educational Reform Possible? If So, How?, by Peter Gray, PhD, was published in Psychology Today and referenced on...
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jody cooper
Jan 1, 20213 min read
Children's Brains have not gone into Hibernation
I was very moved by the wisdom of the educator quoted below. He/she managed to put into words the responses and arguments bouncing around...
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jody cooper
Dec 23, 20203 min read
So, what are Lessons for Education from the Pandemic?
Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, wrote an article in the WSJ: Covid-19’s Painful – and essential –...
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jody cooper
Dec 11, 20202 min read
The Future of Education
The Wall Street Journal published an article in November called Is This the End of College as We Know It? If you are interested in the...
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