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Overschooled but Undereducated:
Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence
 
John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart

Pre-production edition June 2008

The Initiative published a pre-production of John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart’s new book Overschooled but Undereducated: Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence in June 2008. In December 2008 Continuum Books agreed to publish the book in 2009.
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Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
By Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg.
Published by Wharton School Publishing.
ISBN-10: 0-13-234649-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-13-234649-8; Published: Jun 3, 2008

Education should be a lifelong enterprise, a process enhanced by an environment that supports to the greatest extent possible the attempt of people to “find themselves” throughout their lives.
For [...]

From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and innovation, a breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement.

The element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the element, they feel most themselves and most inspired and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on [...]