Posts Tagged ‘accountability’
The First Step Is Failure
Joanne Jacobs, educator, blogger and author of Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea and the Charter School That Beat the Odds, participates today in our Author Speaks Series with an excellent article on how “Schools won’t improve until administrators and teachers can admit the problems, analyze what’s going wrong and…
Read MoreMental Training for Gratitude and Altruism
Brandon Keim writes a nice post on The Future Science of Altruism at Wired Science Blog, based on an interview with Jordan Grafman, chief of cognitive neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Brandon provides good context saying that “Scientists, said Grafman, are understanding how our brains are shaped by culture and…
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