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We’re used to taking the web for granted. We expect it to be there as substrate, with its addresses, declaratory documents, universally avai...

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The author of the recent paper on the long term effects of statewide pre-k programs recommends using an iceberg model of early developmental competencies instead of academic preschools.

Accumulating evidence from developmental social-affective neuroscience and educational research reveals striking affordances for adolescents’ academic…

Did white women or Hispanic men doom the Harris campaign? Or were we just crazy to believe the U.S. was ready to elect a Black woman?

As an electorate besieged by disinformation turned to Trump, trust in traditional media has imploded. What comes next?

Given the tenor of the United States’ national political discourse and the increasingly high stakes attributed to election cycles by people across the political spectrum, elections and their consequences permeate our learning environments. At the same time, in light of everything we have individually and collectively experienced over the past several years, the energy and […]

A strange phenomenon in the way people behave is ‘choice blindness’. When someone has made a choice that is sneakily swapped and shown back to us later, we often fail to notice – and even sti…

During the last few decades, the human rights paradigm has shifted the normative status of disabled people, providing, in principle, the right to full and equal participation. Particularly in neolibe...

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I've learned so much about disability since becoming disabled by a mass-disabling event and by this society. In so many ways, disabled pe...

There must be support for disabled activists who are doing lifesaving disabled activism, mutual aid and survival work.

Life is such an odd thing. Right now, on several different fronts, I'm going through a really tough time. As such when we drove to Saint Jac...

How the right co-opted "meeting people where they are." And how the left can wrest it back

In the Western Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic (WEIRD) world we live in what philosopher Guy Debord described as The Society of the Spectacle. The reality presented to us via the media and …

(and wherever children are learning) Neurodiversity is the idea that different brains work differently, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, even though some

Pete Wharmby discusses autistic special interests and how they should be embraced in schools

Here’s my neurokit: things that support me as a neurodivergent person in my daily life. Share your neurokit with me and add your own 🧠🌈 #AuDHD #Autistic…

Italic and bold emphasis are information-density additives. But as Kottke observes, used deftly, hypertext links are an information-density *multiplier*.

A Personal Perspective: Gentle parenting often gets a bad rap as too permissive. But it can really help neurodivergent kids.

Psychiatry is slowly catching up with the concept of neurodiversity amongst animals, including humans, taking clues from animal biology/psychology and from the neurodiversity movement. The language…

The Case Against Grades - Alfie Kohn

How can we ignite and inspire curiosity-driven, authentic learning? Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.

Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…

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