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By Barrie Olson
My son, Asher, is 11. Last week he asked me what started World War I. I didn’t answer right away. “An archduke was assassinated” is true, but it’s also the kind of answer that closes a conversation instead of opening one. It skips the tangle of alliances that turned one act of violence into a continental war, the nationalism and imperial rivalr...
By Courtney Parker Lopez, Mother
Over the past month, as students across Texas headed back to school, more than 85,000 families began a school year unlike any before it by using the state’s new education savings account program for the first time. Their choices have already become part of a familiar debate over school choice — who benefits, who lose...
In a previous blog, I named how as humans we tend to default to scarcity thinking. This is mostly a survival instinct. We hoard, protect turf, box out, exclude, and create arbitrary limiting funct...
By: Getting Smart Staff
For the previous three years, Getting Smart has hosted regional New Pathways events sponsored by Britebound across the country, with the latest taking place in the great city of Chicago.
District and school leaders, educators, intermediaries, funders, and workforce organizations gathered to better understand how Chicago was prepa...