Alfie Kohn on Nostr: 1/4 Time for my periodic reminder about one of the most important educational ...
1/4 Time for my periodic reminder about one of the most important educational research findings of the 20th century: the Eight-Year Study.
Back in the 1930s, 30 high schools around the US turned traditional practice on its head, especially for college-bound students.
In place of grade-driven, teacher-controlled, fact-based instruction, the learning was interdisciplinary, conceptual, experiential, collaborative, often ungraded, and fashioned jointly by teachers and students...
Back in the 1930s, 30 high schools around the US turned traditional practice on its head, especially for college-bound students.
In place of grade-driven, teacher-controlled, fact-based instruction, the learning was interdisciplinary, conceptual, experiential, collaborative, often ungraded, and fashioned jointly by teachers and students...