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"Upside Down and Inside Out": Why Good Schools Alone Will Never Be Good Enough To Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century. Speech delivered to the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (Washington, DC, May 1997).

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Abbott, John – 1997

The 21st Century Learning Initiative is a transnational program concerned with improving education by changing outdated assumptions about how humans learn. This paper summarizes issues behind the organization's work. The first is the biological nature of learning; discussion of this issue includes a description of new research on the very young…

Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Development, Early Experience, Educational Change