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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 October 4, 2016 

Pocket Peter Marris—Loss and (Social) Change

Back in the mid-1990s there was a flurry of activity in the area of using Bowlbian attachment theory as a theory of social change. In 1996 sociologist Peter Marris released his book entitled The Politics of Uncertainty—Attachment in Private and Public Life. In that same year an edited volume was released entitled The Politics of […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 June 10, 2014 

TRUER WORDS: “Endangered Minds”

Today’s Truer Words come from the 1991 book by education researcher Jane Healy entitled Endangered Minds: Why Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It. Healy writes: While the adult community sanctimoniously bewails erosion of academic rigor and achievement … it perpetuates the practices that are shortening children’s attention spans and rendering their brains unfit […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 May 7, 2014 

COMMENT: Lets Think Critically About Critical Thinking

Common Core keeps popping up on my radar screen these days. As I understand it, Common Core is an attempt by educators to standardize teaching curriculums across the US with the central goal of raising the US’s reported dismal world standing in science and math. As an example, this USNews.com article Are We Misinterpreting the […]

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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
 January 25, 2011 

Philanthropy: All Over the Place, All Over the Place

Comment on: Tax breaks for wealthy donors: Schools struggle, while the rich fund golf tourneys – CSMonitor.com. by Susan Froetschel / January 24, 2011 The above news item caught my eye. I think it’s right. Philanthropy is all over the place (philosophically), all over the place (geographically). The people who are making big bucks (like […]

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