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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to...
Imagine your son leaving for school with his homework forgotten on the kitchen table or…
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The Formative Five: Fostering Grit, Empathy, and Other Success Skills...
“Who you are is more important than what you know.” This principle forms the basis…
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The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can...
What if there existed a secret recipe for curing nearly all of our most serious…
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Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Evaluation by Yong Zhao
In our quest to assess and compare educational outcomes of students, teachers, schools, districts, states,…
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information...
Never has it been so easy to acquire a breadth of information rapidly. At the…
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The ABCs of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches,...
A uniquely actionable new book of learning sciences principles that can improve teaching and learning…
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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a 2013 MacArthur Genius…
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What Kind of Citizen?: Educating Our Children for the Common...
Schools may be vehicles for achieving our idealized society because they allow us to mold…
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Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation...
Tony Wagner, a life-long educator and the author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement…
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and...
“We should simply try to make the world as happy as possible” (P.333). That this…
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