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Essential Art: Part Three
One of the skills that the Becoming Brilliant authors Roberta Michnick and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek focus on as critical to future success is that of confidence.
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Automating mining and fast food jobs
Recent articles on automation in mining and fast foods reinforce that the new reality is that many jobs and occupations in a wide range of
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Chessboards and rice: A lesson for exponential growth
In the book The Second Machine Age, MIT professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson document the way in which technology and automation are changing our
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Strategies to help students learn in toxic stress environments
In a recent blog, I wrote about UCLA Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion Tyrone C. Howard’s critique of educational theories that emphasize the importance
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Essential Art: Part Two
In my last post, I revisited some memories from my 8th grade art class with John Post, in the light of what we’ve been learning
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Sasse, Carrier and the decline of manufacturing jobs
The headlines were about President elect Trump saving 800 manufacturing jobs at a Carrier Indianapolis air conditioning plant. But two Business Insider articles do a