How to Turn Project-Learning Setbacks to Your Advantage

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Edutopia: What Works in Public Education
July 1, 2009
David Markus
Learning from Project Learning
Hi, Everyone,

It's easy to be intimidated by project learning, but Edutopia comes to the rescue with a wealth of resources about a great way to make education meaningful, including this guide to surfing the uncertainty of a project-oriented curriculum. Take a look, too, at a piece of our upcoming coverage of the federal economic-stimulus plan's education funding: from the likes of education activist Jonathan Kozol, District of Columbia schools chief Michelle Rhee, and Teach for America CEO Wendy Kopp, responses to the question "What should be the first priority for education spending?" And from our Digital Generation Project, view this video about a teenager from rural Georgia who passes her digital literacy on to younger children.

-- David Markus
Editorial Director


NPS instruction How to Turn Project-Learning Setbacks to Your Advantage
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