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Education

mbperrin

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1. No surprise. Education is a collaboration. When students are told they're consumers, and their

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Sat Dec 31, 2011, 05:09 PM

Dec 2011

teachers are there to serve them, not much happens.

When students are told they are part of a team working on their education, it can happen.

Most of the current attempts at structuring are wrong-headedly positing students as consumers.

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Key to school improvement: reading, writing, arithmetic……. and character? [View all] OKIsItJustMe Dec 2011 OP

No surprise. Education is a collaboration. When students are told they're consumers, and their mbperrin Dec 2011 #1

How do we test character? proud2BlibKansan Jan 2012 #2

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