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ram bhagat

Students need more opportunities to connect, collaborate, and create in the classroom. The current trend in American Education of “high stakes” standardized testing stresses linear, individualistic, and competitive thinking. There is a fundamental disadvantage to this approach. It limits the ways in which teachers facilitate learning, because of an over emphasis on cognitive learning at [...]

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Although Diane Ravitch presented a logical explanation, in her book The Death and Life of the Great American School System, for her conversion from an advocate for school choice and standardized testing to a born-again supporter of public education, I think her former position was based on hypnosis rather than facts. Ravitch concedes in Chapter [...]

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At the phenomenal moment of conception, all of us had a deceptively large one hundred thousand nanometer (100,000 nm) waistline. However, this seemingly large number becomes obviously small when we translate it into inches. A unit of length that is familiar to most everyone. The diameter of a fertilized ovum or zygote, which is how [...]

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Changing our world view is the fastest and most effective way to expand our consciousness. “According to Abullah (1998), “by shifting our consciousness, then our culture and institutions, we can create a world that works for all.” What catalyzes deep change is an appeal to the heart. Compassion is a potent force for constructive change. [...]

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     Changing our world view is the fastest and most effective way to expand our consciousness. “By shifting our consciousness, then our culture and institutions, we can create a world that works for all” (Abullah, 1999. ). The most effective way to promote change is to show a person that it is in his own [...]