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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Measure the wrong thing, get the wrong thing

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Measure the wrong thing, get the wrong thing

Measure the wrong thing, get the wrong thing

Creativity is Declining?
Hat tip to my dear friend Maggie Tsai, cofounder of Diigo for pointing me to Newsweek's article on the creativity crisis.

For the first time in history, American creativity is declining.

"The correlation to lifetime creative accomplishment was more than three times stronger for childhood creativity than childhood IQ."

Read the article. Share it in your groups and discuss. I haven't slogged through everything, but will say that -- if