A highly successful Chicago charter network was highlighted on NPR today - check out the story here.
The charter network, Noble Street College Prep, has a website at http://www.goldentigers.org/.
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Wide Awake Minds is a resource for people who love to learn and teach. It celebrates the work of educators and self-educators, explores ideas about pedagogy and education policy, and promotes entrepreneurship in education as well as lifelong learning, serious reading, and the liberal arts.
Wide Awake Minds is a project of Ryan McCarl. Ryan is a writer, attorney, and former high school history teacher as well as the founder of WordBrewery, a language-learning website and app.
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Wide Awake Minds is a project of Ryan McCarl. Ryan is a writer, attorney, and former high school history teacher as well as the founder of WordBrewery, a language-learning website and app.
If you enjoy Wide Awake Minds, please take a moment to "like" our Facebook page, link to us on your blog or social network, or pass the site along to someone who might be interested in reading it. Thank you, as always, for reading.
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Wide Awake Minds Interviews
- #1: Self-educator Race Bannon
- #2: Self-educator Margaret Viola
- #3: University of Chicago Professor Charles Lipson
- #4: Author and Iraq War Veteran Wesley Gray
- #5: Self-educator Deven Black
- #6: Self-educator Peter Behr
- #7: Texas A&M Neuroscientist Dr. Bill Klemm
- #8: Self-educator Hoossam Malek
- #9: Polyglot and self-educator Alexander Arguelles
People discussed, profiled, or quoted on Wide Awake Minds
- Alfie Kohn
- Benjamin Franklin
- Charles D. Hayes
- Charles Taylor
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Daniel Willingham
- Deborah Meier
- E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
- Erich Auerbach
- Eva S. Moskowitz
- Hannah Arendt
- ibn Sina (Avicenna)
- Jacques Barzun
- Jacques Barzun - 2
- Jean Roemer
- John Livingston Lowes
- Jonathan Z. Smith
- Louis Copeland
- Michael W. McConnell
- Michelle Rhee
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Nicholas D. Kristof
- Northrop Frye
- President Obama
- Robert M. Hutchins
- Ryan McCarl
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Sonia Nieto
- Studs Terkel
- Wendell Brooks
- William Schaaf
Education News, Research, and Resources
- AEI - Education
- American Educator
- American School
- Beerkens' Blog
- Big Ideas (Grant Wiggins)
- Book Smarts (ed book reviews)
- Bridging Differences (Meier and Ravitch)
- Brookings Brown Center on Educational Policy
- Brookings Institution - Education
- CALDER: Longitudinal Data in Education Research
- Cato Center for Educational Freedom
- Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools
- Center on Reinventing Public Education
- Century Foundation - Education
- Change Magazine
- Chronicle of Higher Education
- Cities on a Hill (Manhattan Institute)
- Classic Texts in Education
- CNN - Education
- Current Issues in Education
- Descasia: Critique of Academic Culture
- District Administration
- Ecology of Education
- Edbizbuzz
- Education Next
- Education Policy Center at Michigan State University
- Education Review (book reviews)
- Education Sector
- Education Week
- Educational Leadership
- Educational Researcher
- Educational Theory
- EducationNews.org
- Eduflack
- Edutopia
- Eduwonk
- Encyclopedia of Informal Education
- Equality & Education
- eSchoolNews
- Flypaper (Thomas B. Fordham Institute)
- Harvard Educational Review
- Heritage Foundation - Education
- Inside Higher Ed
- Intercepts (on public ed and unions)
- Joanne Jacobs
- Journal of Curriculum Theorizing
- Journal of the Philosophy of Education
- Liberal Education
- Michigan Education Report (Mackinac Center for Public Policy)
- NAEP - The Nation's Report Card
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- National Journal - Education
- New Foundations
- New York Times - Education
- NPR - Education
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Friere)
- Phi Beta Cons (National Review)
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Philosophy of Education Directory
- Philosophy of Liberal Education readings
- Radical Pedagogy
- RAND Education
- Rethinking Schools
- Schools Matter
- Teacher Magazine
- Teachers College Record
- The Ed Fly
- This Week in Education (Alexander Russo)
- Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- U.S. Census Bureau - Education
- Washington Post - Education
- Wide Awake Minds
Education Practitioners, Writers, and Scholars
- Adam B. Schaeffer
- Adam Kissel
- Alexander Russo
- Alfie Kohn
- Amy Gutmann
- Andrew J. Coulson
- Andrew Rotherham
- Andy Smarick
- Annie Murphy Paul
- Arne Duncan
- Bill Ayers
- Bill Nye
- Caroline Hoxby
- Catherine Elgin
- Charles Lipson
- Charles T. Clotfelter
- Chester E. Finn, Jr.
- Dale Ballou
- Dan Goldhaber
- Daniel Willingham
- David T. Hansen
- Deanna Kuhn - 1
- Deanna Kuhn - II
- Deborah Meier
- Derek Bok
- Diane Ravitch
- E.D. Hirsch
- Eric A. Hanushek
- Erin O'Connor
- Ewan McIntosh
- Frederick M. Hess
- Gary D. Fenstermacher
- Geoffrey Canada
- Grace Llewellyn
- Grant Wiggins
- Harry Brighouse
- Harvey A. Silverglate
- Harvey Siegel
- Helen F. Ladd
- Henry A. Giroux
- Herbert Kohl
- Horace Mann
- Howard Gardner
- Israel Scheffler
- Ivan Illich
- J.P. Horne
- Jane Hannaway
- Jay Mathews
- Jay P. Greene
- Jay P. Greene - 2
- Jean Piaget
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Jeff Bradley (Science Guy in a Tie)
- Jeff Stanzler
- Joanne Jacobs
- John Dewey
- John E. Chubb
- John Goodlad
- John Taylor Gatto
- Jonathan Kozol
- Kevin Carey
- Linda Darling-Hammond
- Lisa Delpit
- Liz Kolb
- Margaret Soltan
- Maria Montessori
- Martha Nussbaum
- Michael Podgursky
- Michael Van Beek
- Michelle Rhee
- Michelle Rhee - 2
- Neal McCluskey
- Nel Noddings
- Nel Noddings - 2
- Nicholas C. Burbules
- Nicholas Meier
- Patrick Riccards
- Paul E. Peterson
- Paul Tough
- Paulo Freire
- Peter Berkowitz
- Plato
- Randall Curren
- Richard Elmore
- Robert C. Bobb
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- Ronald Ferguson
- Ryan McCarl
- Sam Wineburg
- Sandra Feldman
- Sandra Feldman - 2
- Sandra Stotsky
- Shari Saunders
- Sherman Dorn
- Stanley Aronowitz
- Stella Vera Gorlin
- Stuart Buck
- Susan Ohanian
- Susanna Loeb
- Ted Sizer
- Terry Moe
- Wendy Kopp
- William L. Sanders
Education Institutions, Unions, Societies, and Notable Schools
- Advanced Placement
- American Education Research Association
- American Federation of Teachers
- Association of American Colleges and Universities
- Cushing Academy (MA)
- Deep Springs College
- DeVry University locations
- Interactive Communications & Simulations Group
- International Baccalaureate
- National Academy of Education
- National Association of Scholars
- National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy
- National Council for the Social Studies
- National Education Association
- National School Boards Assoc.
- New Trier High School
- Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
- Phillips Academy (Andover)
- Philosophy of Education Society
- PTA
- Simon's Rock: The Early College
- St. John's College
- Summerhill School
- University of Chicago
- University of Michigan
- US Charter Schools
- US Department of Education
Education Nonprofits and Public Initiatives
- Achieve
- American Academy for Liberal Education
- American Board for the Certification of Teacher Excellence
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Americans United For Separation of Church and State
- Authentic Education (Grant Wiggins)
- AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination
- Black Alliance for Educational Options
- Center For the Study of the Great Ideas (Mortimer J. Adler)
- Coalition of Essential Schools
- Core Knowledge Foundation (E.D. Hirsch)
- Education Schools Project
- Education | Evolving
- Edutopia (George Lucas Educational Foundation)
- Forum for Education and Democracy
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
- Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
- Gates Foundation
- Great Books Foundation
- H-Net (Humanities and Social Studies Online)
- Harlem Children's Zone
- Hunt Institute
- Jean Piaget Society
- John Dewey Society
- Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)
- National Center for Fair and Open Testing
- National Right to Read Foundation
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Paulo Friere Institute
- Public Education Network
- Public School Insights
- Rethinking the University
- Teach For America
- Teaching as Leadership (TFA)
- University of Michigan Center for Educational Outreach
- World History for Us All
For-profit organizations
Self-educators, polymaths, and lovers of learning
- Abraham Lincoln
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Schweitzer
- Alexander Arguelles
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Athanasius Kircher
- Autodidacticism (Wikipedia)
- Ayn Rand
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bertrand Russell
- Cass Sunstein
- Charles Berlitz
- Charles D. Hayes
- Charles Darwin
- Cicero
- Daisetz Suzuki
- Ezra Pound
- Frederick Douglass
- George Bernard Shaw
- Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
- Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry James
- Henry Walter Bates
- Herbert Spencer
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Ibn Sina
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Newton
- Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Jacques Barzun
- Jacques Maritain
- James Joyce
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Joseph Campbell
- José Saramago
- Karl Popper
- Kendall Hailey
- Leon Battista Alberti
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leszek Kołakowski
- Lord Acton
- Malcolm X
- Mario Pei
- Mark Twain
- Martha Nussbaum
- Mary Everest Boole
- Michael Faraday
- Mikhail Lomonosov
- Mircea Eliade
- Multilingualism (Wikipedia)
- Oliver Heaviside
- Plato
- Polymath (Wikipedia)
- Pope John Paul II
- Race Bannon
- René Descartes
- Rhazes
- Richard Posner
- Robert Hooke
- Ryan McCarl
- Shon Hopwood
- Socrates
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Stanley Kubrick
- Stefan Banach
- Steven Spielberg
- Thomas Edison
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Merton
- Walter Pitts
- Wilhelm Richard Wagner
- William Blake
- William James Sidis
- Woody Allen
Self-education Resources
- AddLang (language learning)
- Anne is a Man! Podcast Reviews
- Art history (About.com)
- Art history - online resources
- Autodidact Project - Links
- Babbel (language learning)
- Bartleby - Great books online
- Berkeley Webcast courses
- Busuu (language learning)
- Cal Tech: Introduction to Economics
- Center on International Educational Exchange
- Charles Lipson's homepage
- Classical Archives (music)
- Classical Net (music)
- Cliopatria (History Channel)
- Creative Commons - OpenEd
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas
- Digital Texts
- Discovery Channel
- Economist
- Economist Magazine
- eHow.com (how-to guides)
- FreeVideoLectures
- Google Reader
- Great Books Lists
- History News Network
- How I Learn Stuff (Buccaneer-Scholar)
- huitalk (language learning)
- Hulu - History Channel
- Hulu - Wired Science
- Improve Your Learning and Memory (Dr. Bill Klemm)
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- italki.com (language learning)
- iTunes U
- Kendall Hailey - The Day I Became an Autodidact
- LibraryThing
- Ling (language learning)
- Livemocha (social language learning)
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- MoMA Resources (art)
- My Language Exchange
- MyHappyPlanet (language learning)
- Netflix
- New York Times
- Not Back to School Camp
- NPR
- NPR - Music
- Oyez (U.S. Supreme Court media)
- Palabea (language learning)
- Pandora
- PBS
- PBS Frontline
- Peter Gray (Freedom to Learn)
- Phrase Base (language learning)
- Project Gutenberg
- Rosetta Stone SharedTalk (language learning)
- Ryan McCarl
- SCOTUS blog (U.S. Supreme Court)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Stingy Scholar
- StudyAbroad.com
- TED - Ideas Worth Spreading
- Unilang (language learning)
- Wide Awake Minds
- Wired Magazine
- xLingo (language learning)
- YouTube