Systems for human development evolve based on the fitness characteristics of those systems relative to the environment in which they evolve. The current teacher training system selects for students willing…
The traditional interpretation of human capital is formal education leading to increased earning power. But investments in human capital, in the broadest sense, are resources devoted in the present in…
Many people will acknowledge the existence of extraordinary teachers, such as Jaime Escalante (immortalized in the film “Stand and Deliver” as the teacher who created one of the best AP…
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I began my experience as an educator training teachers in Socratic Seminars in Chicago Public Schools for Mortimer Adler’s Paideia Project in the late 1980s. Paideia was a public school…
Whereas once people believed that education would change the world, now people across the political spectrum tend to be skeptical. Academic performance remains stagnant despite a threefold increase in per…