by andflywrite | Aug 8, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Education is hugely expensive (as is Healthcare) in the US. Each year something like three quarters of a Trillion, with a T, dollars are spent on primary and secondary education in the US. One way to think of that is as an immense pool of purchasing power, and if we...
by andflywrite | Jul 29, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality. Raj Chetty’s ideas and research are featured in the Aug. 2019 issue of the Atlantic in a lengthy article, linked below. The...
by andflywrite | Jul 29, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Asa Stone is a Presidential Fellow on sabbatical doing research with a team on ways to better teach soft skills that industry and machines can’t perform, such as effective communication, empathy, teamwork, and leadership. She’s regularly a teacher of the...
by andflywrite | Jul 26, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
One of the 7 core elements of PSA’s “What is Learning Today” includes the “new science of learning”…and that often means we’re talking about neuroscience, and the arts of machine/ brain interface. This story from Axios serves...
by andflywrite | Jul 14, 2019 | BEST LINKS EVER
Remember those local public access stations, mandated by the FCC decades ago, in lip service to making cable TV serve the public interest? This was something different than the Public Interest Broadcast stations that we know as PBS, and it usually featured a...
