The 21st Century Learning Initiative
Promoting a Vision, Knowledge, Experience and a Network
What price 'Intelligence'?
Response to Tony Little's book 'An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education'
This short monograph was written by Neil Richards, a Trustee of the 21st Century Learning Initiative in response to the publication of Tony Little’s book, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Education.
Battling for the Soul of Education
Moving beyond school reform to educational transformation:
The findings and recommendations of 3 decades of synthesis
Download from battlingforthesoulofeducation.org
Teacher/Teaching/Taught
The Initiative’s ‘New Synthesis of Effective Learning’
Based on diverse research in cognitive and neurological science available in the mid-90s
A Project to demonstrate significant improvements in pupil Performance by mobilising the full resources if the community to support learning
A Research and Development Proposal submitted to The Department for Education by Education 2000 February 1993 A Project to demonstrate significant improvements in pupil performance by mobilising the full resources of the community* to support learning. *Definition: Community – a place of well defined geographic boundaries within which there is a strong sense of internal […]
Teaching for Understanding
This article first appeared in the appeared in the Fall, 1993 issue of American Educator, the journal of The American Federation of Teachers. We reprint it here with permission of AFT and of Professor Perkins, co-director of Project Zero at the Harvard University.
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Making Thinking Visible
This article has exercised a great influence on the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s thinking. It originally appeared in the Winter, 1991 issue of American Educator, the journal of The American Federation of Teachers, and is reprinted here with permission.
American Education: An apprenticeship for the Mind
Central to the Initiative’s thinking is the concept of cognitive apprenticeship
Educating People for Change
Capturing the interest of the Head Masters’ Conference
The Confederation of British Industry Speech
Confederation of British Industry (CBI) National Conference 2nd November 1987 Presentation on Education 2000 by John Abbott, Director of the Trust, and interdiction by Brian Corby, Chief Executive of The Prudential Corporation. Young people are a Nation’s most precious resource. On the quality of their education our future – our pensions if you like – […]
The Hertfordshire Project
The official 6 page document, issued to everyone within the town, just as Education 2000’s first project was starting
1981 Letter from the Headmaster to the Times Editor
Alleyne’s School Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 3BE From The Headmaster 15th October 1981. ‘Letters to the Editor’, The Times, P. O. Box 7, 200 Grays Inn Road, London WC1K SEK. Dear Sir, Sir William van Straubenzee recently warned the new Secretary of State for Education ‘that cuts in education had not just cut […]
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