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Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto
Strategy for Sustainability By Adam Werbach Published by: Harvard Business Press, 2009 I expected Adam Werbach’s Strategy for Sustainability to have an adversarial tone; indeed, it is subtitled A Business Manifesto. After all, Werbach was an activist with Greenpeace, and is a former president of the Sierra Club. So you can imagine my surprise to [...]
21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times
21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times By Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel 240 pp, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California, 2009 One of the best summaries so far of 21st-century skills for educators and parents is in Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel’s new book, 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times. As [...]
Education and Technology: Reflections On Computing in Classrooms
Education and Technology: Reflections On Computing in Classrooms Author: Charles Fisher, David C. Dwyer, Keith Yocam Published by: Jossey-Bass, 1996 “A blueprint for those communities who are attempting change within existing educational structures. . . . Parents, teachers and school administrators, business and community leaders, and policy makers will find this book instructive. . .well [...]
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