TEN YEARS since Daniel Willingham released a book about "Why Students Don't Like School"

So... why not take a moment and CLICK on the Amazon.com listing?

Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom 1st Edition

by Daniel T. Willingham 

Willingham also has a remarkable description of the myth of LEARNING Styles.   See this BLOG

Tony Wagner wrote about the skills that students need (he calls them "Survival Skills" on his website)

In 2003 Tony Wagner authored a book about reinventing schools.   He pointed out the we should avoid  reforming schools and we should instead create entirely new ways of organizing schools.

Here are some pages that appear in the FREE "look inside" feature of the book as it appears on Amazon.com:

Imagine, 4900 started in 9th grade, 1500 dropped out (705 remained)

Interesting:   School improvmement is measured by test scores -- but Scott Looney has
othere ways to measure progress.  See MASTERY.org

Well, there are some gaps  in the free material

The advances in Denmark also appear in Wagner's 2015 book  MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED

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Here are some pages from the first chapter of REINVENT SCHOOLS

I started a discussion question on GoodReads.org
QUESTION:  Should we REINVENT schools or simply REFORM what is there now?
In this book, Tony Wagner uses the term "reinvent schools."

Consider these links
TinyURL.com/Littkychapter1

TinyURL.com/Littkychapter1

TinyURL.com/LittkyRadio   Littky's interview on National Public Radio


TinyURL.com/ExampleDP   example of digital portfolios

www.TINYURL.com/sunNHD  an example of a project in National History Day

Videos  TINYURL.com/LittkyNYED
TinyURL.com/NoGradesVideo   Scott Looney's presentation about a new transcript
(the use of "competencies"is mentioned in MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED)

If you have not yet visited these links, why not visit and then comment about "do we need to reform what we have or REINVENT the schools?" 

Making schools smaller makes sense if the procedures int he classroom are changed to allow individual exploration as described in MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED.   You can see excerpts from MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED at TINYURL.com/quotesForBetterSchools.   You can also get more tips about how to improve schools from Littky's book.

Thanks for reading this far.


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GO HERE
See more quotes from GOODREADS from Wagner's book published in 2015 called MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED.  

Why create a list of links for Parents to click on?

Here's why I started this blog (which is like an UPDATE for PARENTS):

1) Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith wrote a powerful book that laid out "what works better than the current testing system in schools" in 2015  See some quotes HERE
2)  Their book, MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED, describes excellent procedures that have been documented by Dennis Littky (2004) and Tom Toch (2003), as well as Tom vander Ark (in his blog GettingSmart.com)
3) High tech High has been using digital portfolios for years.
4)  Scott Looney's proposal for a "focus on skills" was announced in 2017 and his video channel has videos with fewer that 2000 views.    Mastery.org    SEE an article in the Boston Globe
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Who might have seen this material?
ASCD is the publisher of the Dennis Littky book -- and it was distributed to over 70,000 members.   The book cost over $20 in 2004, so few parents saw this book.   A typical use of the book:  a principal in Oregon is using this book in training his staff -- but have many parents heard about this book?  Perhaps not.

Parents and teenagers are perhaps the key audience for this infofmation.   Let's give parents some links to start with.


http://tinyurl.com/10expectationsspanish    Practice another language... while reading the 10 Expectations from Big Picture Learning authors Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski


See Dennis littky at 2011 TEDx NYED CLICK HERE
Share the link:  TINYURL.com/LittkyTEDx