This week I read around the Washington Post’s “Top Secret America” portal. You can read about its methodology and see the project’s credits here.
I started with this article: “National Security Inc.” On page 10, the article describes the work of Ken Pohill, an employee of General Dynamics, a defense contractor serving multiple roles in the [...]
As I work on this year’s curriculum map, I’m trying to set up a learning space bounded by the minimum number of teacher-imposed, useful constraints necessary to promote student-directed democracy, community, and learning.
My map this year will look more course-specific than last year’s meta-map, which I think is still a useful model for project-based work. [...]
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Posted 02 July 2010
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