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A Sage on the Stage
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read
- De Redsatyr en 11-18-20
De: E. D. Hirsch
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Bold School
- Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works
- De: Weston Kieschnick
- Narrado por: Weston Kieschnick
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Technology is awesome. Teachers are better. Blending new technologies into instruction is a non-negotiable if we are to help our students gain the skills they'll need to thrive in careers. And so too is educators' old school wisdom in planning intentional blended learning that works. Too often, sincere enthusiasm for technologies pushes proven instructional strategies to the wayside, all but guaranteeing blended learning that is all show and no go. Bold School is an audiobook that restores teachers to their rightful place in effective instruction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Spot on!
- De debi bender en 11-19-20
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Higher Education in America
- De: Derek Bok
- Narrado por: Steven Cooper
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Higher Education in America is a landmark work - a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most-respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Long but not deep
- De ProfGolf en 05-13-16
De: Derek Bok
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
- De: Jo Boaler
- Narrado por: Jo Boaler
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 533
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In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Title does not reflect audience
- De Oliver Nielsen en 05-02-20
De: Jo Boaler
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The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- De: Todd Rose
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,193
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good intentions, terrible execution
- De Kristofer Jarl en 05-06-19
De: Todd Rose
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The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- De: Bryan Caplan
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 701
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Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, someone says what needs to be said about education
- De Brandon B. en 05-17-18
De: Bryan Caplan
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Not for Profit
- Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- De: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 35
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for Profit
- De elemarteacher en 07-21-17
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Fail U.
- The False Promise of Higher Education
- De: Charles J. Sykes
- Narrado por: Michael Butler Murray
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
With chapters exploring the staggering costs of a college education, the sharp decline in tenured faculty and teaching loads, the explosion of administrator jobs, the grandiose building plans (gyms, food courts, student recreation centers), and the hysteria surrounding the "epidemic" of campus rapes, "triggers", "micro-aggressions", and other forms of alleged trauma, Fail U. concludes by offering a different vision of higher education - one that is affordable, more productive, and better-suited to meet the needs of a diverse range of students.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Very glad I listened, not enough resolution
- De James Collier en 03-01-17
De: Charles J. Sykes
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Whistling Vivaldi
- How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
- De: Claude M. Steele
- Narrado por: DeMario Clarke
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
- Versión completa
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 562
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his groundbreaking conclusions on stereotypes and identity. He sheds new light on American social phenomena from racial and gender gaps in test scores to the belief in the superior athletic prowess of black men, and lays out a plan for mitigating these “stereotype threats” and reshaping American identities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprising, in a good way
- De Michael en 09-25-20
De: Claude M. Steele
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Excellent Sheep
- The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- De: William Deresiewicz
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 462
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 377
Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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skip the book read the essay
- De Amazon Customer en 05-07-15
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The End of College
- Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere
- De: Kevin Carey
- Narrado por: James Yaegashi
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 52
Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years. In The End of College, Kevin Carey, an education researcher and writer, draws on years of in-depth reporting and cutting-edge research to paint a vivid and surprising portrait of the future of education.
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3 out of 5 stars
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40 pages of content inflated to 250 pages
- De Brian Dickinson en 04-28-15
De: Kevin Carey
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The Professor Is In
- The Essential Guide to Turning Your PhD into a Job
- De: Karen Kelsky
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Wiley
- Duración: 14 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Each year tens of thousands of students will, after years of hard work and enormous amounts of money, earn their PhDs. And each year only a small percentage of them will land jobs that justify and reward their investments. For every comfortably tenured professor or well-paid former academic, there are countless underpaid and overworked adjuncts and many more who simply give up in frustration. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help job seekers join the select few who get the most out of their PhDs.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly useless and potentially harmful
- De we3 en 10-20-17
De: Karen Kelsky
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Ungifted
- Intelligence Redefined
- De: Scott Barry Kaufman
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 75
In Ungifted, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman - who was relegated to special education as a child - sets out to show that the way we interpret traditional metrics of intelligence is misguided. Kaufman explores the latest research in genetics and neuroscience, as well as evolutionary, developmental, social, positive, and cognitive psychology, to challenge the conventional wisdom about the childhood predictors of adult success. He reveals that there are many paths to greatness, and argues for a more holistic approach to achievement that takes into account each young person’s personal goals, individual psychology, and developmental trajectory.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great content for the intellectually curious
- De ZestyFresh en 08-11-17
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The Slow Professor
- Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy
- De: Maggie Berg, Barbara K. Seeber
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 3 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 51
The corporatisation of the contemporary university has sped up the clock. In The Slow Professor, Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber discuss how adopting the principles of the Slow movement in academic life can counter this erosion of humanistic education. Focusing on the individual faculty member and his or her own professional practice, Berg and Seeber present both an analysis of the culture of speed in the academy and ways of alleviating stress while improving teaching, research, and collegiality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good content, not so good performance
- De Anonymous User en 10-31-20
De: Maggie Berg, y otros
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Now You See It
- How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
- De: Cathy N. Davidson
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 112
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 86
When Duke University gave free iPods to the freshman class in 2003, critics said they were wasting their money. Yet when the students in practically every discipline invented academic uses for the music players, suddenly the idea could be seen in a new light - as an innovative way to turn learning on its head. Using cutting-edge research on the brain, Cathy N. Davidson show how attention blindness has produced one of our society's greatest challenges.
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5 out of 5 stars
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3 Reasons to Read
- De Joshua Kim en 05-06-12