Are the New 3 R’s and the Student-Centered, Inquiry Driven Classroom a Means...
We are so trained to defer to religious beliefs as a private matter and something that, at least in the US, Government is supposed to stay out of, that it can take a sledgehammer hit to force us to...
View ArticleFuture Common Communicative Competence With Regional Economies Focused on...
Readers beyond a certain age or with a fondness for TV reruns are likely responding to that title with a high-pitched “Say What?” This is one of those seminal posts that ties together the education,...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Sovereign Political Powers Get to Dictate the Way People...
Years ago the Frankfurt School researchers stumbled upon a useful fact. Once people have heard the same pitch or story from someone they view as authoritative about five times or so, most people simply...
View ArticleTuition-Paid, Taxpayer-Funded, and Faith-Based Schools Unite to Force a...
The phrase “Revolution of Being” showed up recently in an essay from the 70s that then proceeded to lay out the education vision for how to transition to a radically different collectivist society....
View ArticleDeep Diving to Internal Mental Models to Increase Leverage for Accomplishing...
No, deep diving is not a Grab Your Attention Play on the ubiquity of the ambiguous term ‘deeper learning’ as a fundamental goal of 21st century education globally. The last fundamental transformation...
View ArticlePersuading Americans in Sufficient Numbers to See Economic and Social Rights...
I was going to call our conclusion of the Human Rights Trilogy by a different title. “Quietly Enshrining a Global Ethic of Binding Values, Irrevocable Standards, and Requisite Personal Attitudes” would...
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 ArticleNiti, Nyaya, Government by Think Tanks, and Every Student Succeeds
Hope everyone had a great holiday season. I took an unplanned break from writing, but not researching, since the last post. With the statutory language of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) now in...
View ArticleFuturibles: Seeking the Levers of History by Focusing on the Types of...
Please try not to get whiplash as we move back and forth through the decades. Just this week the OECD conceded openly that instead of focusing on structures and incentives, which both traditional...
View ArticleForcing Equality of Communicative Competence as an Expedient Way to Promote...
One of the benefits of now having an extensive research library documenting what I write about is being able to recognize what I am looking at now and then going back in time to when the hoped for...
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