The First Step Is Failure

By Alvaro Fernandez | February 17, 2008 |

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…

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2 more Contributors on Brain, Education issues

By Alvaro Fernandez | January 29, 2008

We are pleased to announce that we’ll have 2 addi­tion­al excel­lent con­tri­bu­tions dur­ing Feb­ru­ary: — Adri­an Pre­da, M.D., will write about a brain plas­tic­i­ty top­ic. Adri­an Pre­da, M.D. is an Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Human Behav­ior in the UC Irvine School of Med­i­cine. His exper­tise in human behav­ior, psy­chol­o­gy and spir­i­tu­al­i­ty is based on years…

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