Myth 26
This president has, multiple times, proposed to lengthen the school year.
Who is President Obama?
What Marcus lost at the beginning of the article that struck up discussion in his first grade classroom.
What is his tooth?
At the beginning of the article, Ayers compares our uncertainty of where we are going in life to this piece of literature.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
This country has outperformed many others academically, despite having more breaks and shorter school days.
What is Finland?
This Elementary school was designed out of inspiration from the Finnish education system, and strives to focus on problem solving, exploring, and cooperative learning (among other things).
What is EXPO?
His perspective was based off of the Utopian ideal of developing a sense of empowerment, positive power as the central value, and involves the elimination of fear and constraint, and the feeling of failure and incapacity.
The number of states The U.S. Department of Education funded schools in to experiment with longer school days/years.
What is five?
In the U.S., elementary school students have the same amount of hours as this student.
What is a high school senior?
This is the number of steps toward a vision of the kind of schools all children and youth deserve.
The average time students spend engaging in curriculum (Answer is a percentage).
What is 70%?
Ulla's disciplinary style.
What is swift, gentle, and discreet?
Also would have accepted:
What is gentle?
What is discreet?
What is 'under the radar'?
One of the TRUE basics of a valuable education.
What is initiative and courage?
What is creativity and imagination?
What is respect for oneself and the full humanity of others?
What is inventiveness, self-confidence and compassion?
What is curiosity?
What is a risk-taking, experimental spirit?