Education Reform Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/education-reform/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:16:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Education Reform Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/education-reform/ 32 32 The Elephant in the Classroom https://mind-at-work.com/the-elephant-in-the-classroom/ Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:16:48 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1489 For well over a century, the phrase “elephant in the room” has been used to denote a situation that is too obvious to ignore but is nevertheless ignored. In the classroom, the “elephant” is bureaucracy, and its effect on the process of teaching and learning has been deleterious. Up until the mid-20th century, education was [...]

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]]> Educators Still Don’t Get It https://mind-at-work.com/educators-still-dont-get/ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:28:46 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=830 In a 2013 interview with the NY Times, Laszlo Bock, senior operations VP at Google, reported that the company now bases its hiring on candidates’ thinking ability rather than their academic credentials.  The reason? Company research revealed that college Grade Point Averages (GPAs) and test scores are “worthless” and that in some cases people who [...]

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