In a recent Edutopia article, Angela Duckworth says schools should be measuring things such as teamwork, loyalty, honesty, grit, and creativity. She is wrong. She says, “I don’t want to send a signal to young people that cognitive ability is the only…
read moreBullying is not the only problem with schooling, but it is one that literally brings violence into children’s lives, and in worst case scenarios it ends lives. In this essay series we laid out five actionable steps that schools need to take…
read moreWe previously pointed out that the first step to ending school bullying was to end age segregation.[1] The second step is to eliminate competition and grades. The most overt (and odious) function of schooling is a sorting function. Edward Thorndike, the father…
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