{"id":36371,"date":"2013-01-14T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=36371"},"modified":"2013-01-14T13:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:23:58","slug":"just-saw-this-solid-presentation-re-us-k-12-ed-reform-amanda-ripleys-ask-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/01\/14\/just-saw-this-solid-presentation-re-us-k-12-ed-reform-amanda-ripleys-ask-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Just saw this solid presentation re: US K-12 ed reform &#8212; Amanda Ripley&#8217;s &#8220;Ask the kids&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/52184652\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36372\" alt=\"AmandaRipley-AskTheKids2012\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AmandaRipley-AskTheKids2012.jpg\" width=\"716\" height=\"473\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AmandaRipley-AskTheKids2012.jpg 716w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/AmandaRipley-AskTheKids2012-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Description:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. \u201cKids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there contemplating their situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<br \/>\nI post this now, because I just saw this via a post that Patrick Larkin made over the weekend &#8212; <\/span><\/em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickmlarkin.com\/2013\/01\/amanda-ripleys-intriguing-talk-on.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Ripley&#8217;s intriguing talk on education reform<\/a><\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8212; <em>that contains the following excerpt (bolding\/emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video concludes with the following takeaways from these conversations:<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the top performing countries in the world school is harder.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">No country is like the US with its obsession of playing sports.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Kids (in schools in these other countries) believe there&#8217;s something in it for them.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Kids believe that what they are doing in school impacts their futures.<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Description: Amanda Ripley is an investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy. For Time Magazine and the Atlantic, she has chronicled the stories of American kids and teachers alongside groundbreaking new research into education reform. \u201cKids have strong opinions about school. We forget as adults how much time they sit there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,473,347,287,37,95,46,486,310,66,38,321],"tags":[725,790,739,711,587,96,4,794,722,603,588,728],"class_list":["post-36371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-canada","category-education-reform","category-europe","category-future","category-global-globalization","category-k-12-related","category-real-world-assignments","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-uk","category-united-states","tag-asia","tag-canada","tag-education-reform","tag-europe","tag-future","tag-global","tag-k-12","tag-real-world-assignments","tag-staying-relevant","tag-student-related","tag-uk","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36371"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36381,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36371\/revisions\/36381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}