This is one of a few projects I am working on at the moment. Connecting Rural Teenagers with High-Paying Jobs Kevin Burke, Seva Mandir The problem The first step on the economic ladder for most citizens is a job requiring skills slightly more advanced than day labor. For rural villagers, the economic and personal returns [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Great teachers
There’s a good essay in the Atlantic on what makes a great teacher. Teach for America recruits 4,000 new teachers out of college every year and keeps detailed data on which ones succeed and which don’t. This allows them to provide better instruction in the summer cram before they hit the classroom in the fall, [...]
How can we make students write shit that's worth reading?
Responding to Steven Pressfield’s blog writing lesson (“Rule #1: Nobody wants to read your shit”) Ben Casnocha notes: In school anything you write or do will be read and graded by a teacher paid to do so. In the real world nobody wants to read your shit, and you have to earn their attention every [...]
