Psst…Wanna buy a bottle of air?

“Maybe the whole world has gone mad.” This rather succinct summation was how education historian and public school advocate Diane Ravitch rounded out her consideration of a new idea tha…

Source: Psst…Wanna buy a bottle of air? (via Stephen Downes)

This article looks (disparagingly) at the idea of “grit”, rather than literacy and numeracy, as an indicator of success in schools, along with the need to test for and develop grit from an early age.

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