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| Quotes to Note |
"What children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and more of the
real world; plenty of time and space to think over their experiences."
John Holt
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
"Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly,
will society and man's habits change quickly enough?"
Issac Asimov
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the
state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
Jean Piaget
"There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals
to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship."
Mark Twain
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
W. B. Yeats
"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a
closet."
Lord Chesterfield
"The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living."
Wendell
Phillips
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy
is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| News & Trends on K-12 Education |
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TIMSS & PIRLS Study Center
Dedicated to conducting comparative studies in educational achievement in the areas of math, science, and reading. |
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Improving grades, low test scores aren't matching
Two federal reports out Thursday offer conflicting messages about how well high-schoolers are doing academically. One showed that seniors did poorly on national math and reading tests. |
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Promising Practices: Progress Toward the Goals
Details successful practices and policies in place in 20 states that have made significant progress and demonstrated high achievement in one or more of the Eight National Education Goals. |
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| Educating the Whole Child Resources |
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| Education Research Reports |
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| Best Education Web Sites
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award a web site this recognition on six factors, including 1) when it's
providing outstanding material in curriculum or services with meaningful
content related to Standards, 2) it includes aspects of character education,
and 3) it provides an education approach recognized by current research as
being successful . See the sites we have awarded in our Member
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