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The cognitive maturity fallacy occurs when one takes as a given capabilities that are actually hard-won developmental achievements. An integral meta-theory of education rejects the cognitive maturity fallacy, and thus affirms a developmental view of human learning and education. This is perhaps best summarized by saying that __humans grow and learn according to qualitatively distinct and sequentially-unfolding developmental levels of capacity, which are ethically, epistemologically, and politically important.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
Simplifying our activities doesn’t mean sinking into laziness; on the contrary, it means acquiring a growing freedom and counteracting the most subtle aspect of inertia—the impulse that, even when we know what really counts in life, prompts us instead to pursue a thousand trivial activities, one after the other, like ripples in the water.
Happiness
Matthieu Ricard
The most controversial of the Race to the Top provisions was forty points for adopting “common” standards.33 The Common Core State Standards Initiative seeks to unify K-12 grade-level standards across the country,
Kids These Days
Malcolm Harris
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