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What's the Best Way to Measure Teachers?
You have good teachers of all different personality types, all different sizes and shapes. And so this is an art, this is not a science.
The Seven Most Important People in a Child's Life
What you remember from your high school teachers is not so much the curriculum, you remember the way of being that teacher possessed.
In Defense of Testing
I think we need tests and we need to apply those tests to individual teachers, to individual schools, to individual students and to individual parents.
3 Ways to Make Our Schools Emotionally Addicitive
Some of the things we need to do to really make school a more emotionally addictive place.
The key to success? Remind yourself of how little you know.
You don’t want to be so modest that you don’t’ do anything, and just sit there like a puddle, but when you do things, you constantly want to be checking for your own biases.
We Don't Trust What We Can't Count, Even If It's the Most Important Thing
That thing which we call culture, which is sort of the zeitgeist, the feel of an atmosphere is really hard to count and measure, and very hard to put into numbers. And yet it tends to be the most important thing.
Brooks’s books include Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There (2000), in which Brooks combined the words bohemian and bourgeois to coin the term ‘Bobo’ in order to describe today’s corporate upper class, the descendants of the yuppies. Brooks argues this marriage between bohemian and bourgeois represents a fusion of the liberal idealism of the 1960s with the self-interest of the 1980s.
Four years later Brooks published On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense (2004). The thesis of this book connects the material drives of the American middle class with its focus on the future. Brooks’s new book is called The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement, published in March 2011. The Social Animal deals primarily with what drive individuals' behavior and decision making and how we form our emotions and character.
