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One thing I learned during 35 years in education: there are plenty of educators, and a vast majority of curriculum leaders, standards writers, etc. who vastly underestimate students’ interest in and capacity to learn about and potentially solve complex problems.
@garyackerman Equally, there are plenty of them who never met a representative sample of a reasonable cross-section of the general population, i.e. haven't taught much (or at all) and envisage curricula for mini versions of themselves