55 Years in School: Best for the Best

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Would tailoring classrooms to different learning levels do more for kids in school?

Pick Strawberries

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Sometimes living in the present requires a leap of faith, and the simple pleasure of a single strawberry.

Panoramic Pupils

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Sleepy students huddling together for a group photo have no idea just how close to their futures they really are.

Living the Impossible Dream

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Most people would say he shouldn’t still be alive, but he is. A heartwrenching excerpt from Robert Levithan’s new book.

Everything I Want to Do for the Rest of My Life

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What do you want?

My Heavenly Year

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Tom Matlack was asked “What was your favorite year?”

Finding the Warriors

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Atalwin Pilon writes that sacrifice, compassion, and love prevail where greed, fear, and denial fall short.

I Have Taught 3,625 Students

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Carl Bosch can wish extravagant success for his former students, but all he can hope for is basic goodness.

Parents for Occupy Wall Street

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Parents are protesting, Lisa Duggan writes, because they want a better future for their children.

Thursday HuffPost Edition – Ten things I've learned from Steve Jobs

1. Form is as important as function. 2. Corporate presentations do not have to be boring, or text-heavy, or generic. Presentations are performances; they should be important, heady, image-based, funny, and idealistic. Steve Jobs made corporate presentations into events. 3. Good, visionary people are critical and irreplaceable… Read the rest of this week’s post here

A Failure We Can Live With

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The Most Passionate Speech About Possibilities You’ll Hear All Year

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Jason Silva gives a passionate rant on the importance of stem-cell research.

I Still Don’t Know What I Want to Be When I Grow Up—and That’s Just Fine

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“The most vexing part of having to cobble together a life without that clear sense of direction is that this nagging feeling is still there.”

Guestpost #57: Amanda Petryschuk – Ten things I've learned from working in adult entertainment

Amanda is a very talented comedienne, tax expert, and all around cool person. She has had a fascinating life. Here is her Impatient bio: http://www.impatient.ca/people/amanda-petryschuk/ This job will colour most, if not all, of your experiences in the present and future. I’m in my future now, and my experiences in that environment very much affect [...]

Going the Way of the Dodo

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Aaron Gouveia imagines all the low-tech things that will be extinct before his son ever knows them. Like rotary phones. And books.

Top 10 Good Men of 2010: Chris Anderson

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This phenomenon—the sharing of ideas across the global community—isn’t just cool. It isn’t just entertaining. It’s objectively, undeniably good.