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That sounds like pretty good advice but this book says thats too passive

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My disappointment in the book lies in the fact that it ends with no concrete suggestions for how to shift the united states to the kind of society where personalization of opportunity is the norm

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What the authors say about personalizing education definitely rings true

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As an educator i was so excited to read about the successes of those who take the road less traveled the dark horses no one would ever bet on

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The themes of this book are few and readily summarized though their implications are vast and revolutionaryvirtually all of our social institutions are designed to accommodate the average person yet there is no average person

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Nor do rose ogas appear to be cognizant of the deep irony of a couple of comfortably ensconced ivory tower harvard professors at its graduate school of education preaching the centrality of individual freedom and the pursuit of microfitted happiness and fulfillment at an institution that imposes such rigid political correctness on its student body and faculty that even a distinguished social scientist like professor charles a

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The main focus in this book is on improving education in america and although the authors are too polite to a fault to point it out our school factories on both the k12 and college levels have for many years even decades been graduating students who can barely read write or handle simple math let alone think critically

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Thus what i most appreciated in this book in addition to the personal dark horse anecdotes were the authors advertisements for several promising experimental approaches to education that make end arounds the dismal and ineffective american k12 schools of today and another that bypasses the college scam and gouge