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Karen Kingsbury, Howard Books$19.99Karen Kingsbury, The New York Times bestselling author of Learning and Leaving shares a heartwarming Christmas story about a devastating flood, lost love and the beauty of enduring friendships. Molly Allen lives alone in Portland, but her heart is back in Franklin, Tennes... Learn More
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January 2011
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Agricultural Innovation in Africa; Science, Technology, and Globalization; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
"The creation of agricultural enterprises represents one of the most effective ways to stimulate rural development. This chapter will review the efficacy of the policy tools used to promote agricultural enterprises, with a particular focus on the positive, transformative role that can be played by the private sector. Inspired by such examples, this chapter will end by exploring ways in which African countries, subregional, and regional bodies can create incentives that stimulate entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector. The chapter will take into account new tools such as information and communication technologies and the extent to which they can be harnessed to promote entrepreneurship.
Agribusiness and development
Economic change entails the transformation of knowledge into goods and services through business enterprises. In this respect, creating links between knowledge and business development is the most important challenge facing agricultural renewal in east African countries. The development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been an integral part of the development of all industrialized economies. This holds true in Africa. Building these enterprises requires development of pools of capital for investment; of local operational, repair, and maintenance expertise; and of a regulatory environment that allows small businesses to flourish. Africa must review its incentive structures to promote these objectives. 1
A range of government policy structures is suitable for creating and sustaining enterprisesfrom taxation regimes and market-based instruments to consumption policies and changes in the national system of innovation. Policy makers also need to ensure that educational systems provide adequate technical training. They need to support agribusiness and technology incubators, export processing zones, and production networks as well as sharpen the associated skills through agribusiness education...."
1. M. Pragnell, "Agriculture, Business and Development," International Journal of Technology and Globalisation 2, nos. 34 (2006): 28999.
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What is an Educational Surrogate Parent?
An Educational Surrogate Parent is an individual who has been appointed to represent the educational interests of a child with disabilities when:
- No parent (as defined under 34 CFR 300.30) can be identified;
- The parent cannot be located;
- The child is a ward of the state; or
- The child is an unaccompanied homeless youth.
What are the Responsibilities?
An educational surrogate parent:
- Learns about the student's educational needs by getting acquainted with the student, communicating with personnel involved in the student's education and/or care, and observing the student at school;
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- Provides or withholds consent for assessment and services/placement;
- Attends educational meetings on the student's behalf;
- Works with school staff to develop an Individualized Education Program (IEP) for the student;
- Negotiates for appropriate services on behalf of the student;
- Abides by the laws of confidentiality when sharing information about the student;
- Requests complaint, mediation or due process procedures, if necessary.
- Reports services twice a year (also basis for reimbursement)
By volunteering as an educational surrogate parent, he/she becomes an important member of a team in determining and ensuring a child receives a free and appropriate public education. The educational surrogate parent must:
- Complete training (An educational surrogate parent application must be completed during the training. There is a flat fee of $60 to offset personal expenses incurred by the volunteer)
- Pass the training exam, and
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October 4, 2012 —
A field trip with a future
LACKAWAXEN, PA — "Is this the Hudson River?" asked one student, gesturing at the Delaware River as it flowed past the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen. That's exactly why Port Jervis Middle School science teacher Paddy McCarthy decided to resurrect and reconfigure an academic competition that he participated in while growing up in Narrowsburg, NY and still values highly today. "These are the kids that need to get out and be challenged and recognize what we have here," he said.
The Sullivan County Interacademic League (SCIL), during which teams matched wits in a series of educational events, left its mark on McCarthy, who still remembers having to solve problems with creative solutions while operating as a member of a team.
McCarthy reached out to National Park Service (NPS) education specialist Ingrid Peterec, who has been working with a group of Port Jervis students for the past several years. The NPS was able to provide funding for busses, enabling transport of 99 eighth-grade students.
"They're the demographic that we want to be reaching, to make the connection that we're here and that the river is our shared resource," Peterec said. "It's so hard for these schools. Funding is the stumbling block."
McCarthy also enlisted the aid of fellow teachers Pete Kowal, Crissy Lundewall and Trisha Aumick. Collectively, they came up with challenges focused on math, English, social studies, science and art, along with a scavenger hunt meant to raise awareness of the museum grounds. "We're trying to hit on things that the kids should know, as well as challenge them with difficult material where they need to think outside the box," said McCarthy.
Many of the kids have never even been on the river, according to McCarthy, who secured donations from area businesses to motivate the students. "If you're top notch and you work together and win a $60 free rafting trip, that's special. Silver Canoe was very generous with free rafting vouchers for the winning team." Other prizes were donated by Alice's Wonderland, Cedar Rapids Rafting, Kittatinny Canoes, Lander's River Trips and the NPS.
McCarthy has been focusing on team building with his students. "It's interesting how little of those skills they have," he said. "This will give them experiences they can draw on throughout the year. It also gives them some common ground. You don't have to like science or be a scientist, but you're going to have to work with people."
Another concern McCarthy has targeted is communication skills. "This generation is very technology-communicative but they lack interpersonal skills," he said. "They don't know how to critique each other, to speak up and share their ideas or say they don't think that's going to work."
McCarthy also contends that participation boosts self confidence. "Some kids are really stepping up and directing their friends," he said. "It gives them a chance to experiment with leadership, which they don't often get to do."
McCarthy hopes such programs will help to reverse the increasing dropout rate by giving students an interactive and engaging learning experience that they can enjoy and will remember fondly. But he also hopes that enhancing the students' understanding of the river and its environs will foster a stronger sense of responsibility for its well-being.
"What drives the local economy is tourism and people taking care of the river," he said. "We need educated citizens to help with that. Our school is downstream of here, so hopefully what they get is a comparison of this place with their place. Some of the places near Port Jervis are just trashed. Once they see what's going on up here, the water quality, the eagles—that really are the result of someone else's stewardship—they can start to make connections."
McCarthy hopes to see the competition become an annual event. Top winners of the rafting trips were the Llama Chins.


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May 29, 2013 —
NARROWSBURG, NY — David Driver will perform on Saturday, June 1 at 8 p.m. at the Tusten Theatre as part of Narrowsburg Night Out. Before the concert, prix fixe dinners will be offered starting at 6 p.m. at local restaurants Gerard's River Grill (845/252-6562) and The Heron (845/252-3333).
Performing material originated by Brian Wilson & The Beach Boys, Depeche Mode, Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell and Smokey Robinson, as well as lesser-known artists like Scott Walker and Judee Sill, Driver will be joined by Blythe Gruda, Peter Kiesewalter, Ian Pai and a few surprise guests.
This performance is presented by Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, the Arts Council for Sullivan County. Tickets cost $25 and can be ordered by calling 845/252-7272. The evening also features an after party at The Heron with music by DJ LaViolette (also known as Jason Tougaw, host of WJFF's Friday night show The Mixtape).


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Fed makes foreign banks pay to play
The Federal Reserve hit foreign banks operating in the US with new rules meant to force many to hold more capital. It is a significant move, even if the Fed did pull a punch or two.
Foreign banks had fought the proposed rules, a final version of which the Fed approved Tuesday. Among those expected to be most affected are Germany's Deutsche Bank and Barclays of the UK, due to their sizable US capital markets operations.
The Fed rightly pressed ahead, noting that undercapitalised US units of foreign banks had to turn to it during the financial crisis for billions of dollars in emergency funding. The Fed also said the new rules would create "a level playing field between foreign and US banking organisations".
Among the most contentious areas: requirements that big foreign banks meet minimum leverage-ratio requirements, effectively capping the amount of borrowed money they can use. The Fed rejected arguments to scrap this, but did give foreign banks more time to comply: about 2 1/2 extra years.
At the same time, the Fed appeared to give the foreign-banking units a lower bar to clear. They will face a 3% minimum leverage requirement under new Basel rules, while the biggest US banks are likely to face a threshold of at least 5%. And the Fed changed the final version of the rule so fewer big foreign banks would be affected.
The Fed did, however, shoot down requests that foreign banks be allowed to include so-called hybrid instruments in calculations of capital for the leverage ratio. These aren't truly loss-absorbing.
Another concern is that branches of foreign banks won't be subject to the new rules. Although foreign banks are precluded from moving most capital markets functions or insured deposits into such branches, some derivatives could be shifted to them.
Fed governor Daniel Tarullo, the central bank's point person on regulation, said the final rule involved a balancing act in terms of protecting the interests of the US financial system while also acknowledging the global nature of finance. Given that, some compromises were inevitable.
And the Fed, in one important regard, showed it isn't being swayed by tired claims that regulation will surely impede growth and economic activity: If the new rules cause foreign banks to shrink their "systemic footprint," this would be in line with its "overall goal of financial stability," the Fed said. In other words, go ahead and get smaller.
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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia lawmakers already have full plates for the upcoming regular session of the Legislature, which convenes in about a month. Leading the list of their worries is how to balance the state budget.
But on another pressing issue, education reform, money is not the challenge. We're already spending plenty on public schools.
Tomblin, inaugurated this past Monday for a four-year term, emphasized improving public schools needs to be state officials' top priority. He added that, "per capita, our education funding ranks among the best in the nation. But on our most important metric, student achievement, we're falling behind.
"It doesn't need to be this way – and it must stop," the governor stressed.
He is correct. West Virginia's children need better schools if they are to succeed in an increasingly competitive world.
Education is not just a function of time in the classroom, as the governor noted. Ensuring our children learn "means making sure parents become more responsible for their children and their learning," he noted. It also means doing all in our power to ensure young people are not victimized by substance abuse.
But law enforcement agencies are doing all in their power to curb substance abuse. And the courts have begun to take a hard line against parents who allow their children to skip school.
Many of those who do go to class are handicapped by parents and guardians who refuse to be part of the education team, however. There probably is little state government can do about adults who do not recognize the value of education and thus, do not support teachers.
That leaves it up to state government and local boards of education to do all in their power where they can make a difference – in the classroom. Many West Virginia schools are failing badly in that regard. And frankly, the state Department of Education does not seem to have helped much.
During the past three or four decades, any number of school reform campaigns have come and gone in West Virginia. Too often they have been based on fads that came, then went after resulting in little or no real progress. Tomblin is right: We have to get it right this time.


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A Madison teen was arrested after attacking her mother with a knife, according to police.
Police were called to a home on Ashford Lane at 11:43 p.m. Monday. The victim suffered a puncture wound to a leg and a cut hand while trying to wrestle a butcher knife away from her daughter, according to police.
The victim told police her daughter came at her with the knife following an argument.
The 16-year-old was taken to the Juvenile Reception Center after being arrested on suspicion of second-degree reckless endangerment and intimidation of a victim.
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Developing countries need financial resources so that they can address the causes and consequences
of climate change. The Climate Change Convention therefore states that developed countries should
provide "new and additional" funds to help developing countries meet their treaty
commitments. Support can come from both bilateral and multilateral sources.
The Convention's "financial mechanism" is a major source of funding. Its role is
to transfer funds and technology to developing countries on a grant or concessional basis. The
mechanism is guided by, and accountable to, the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention,
which decides on policies, programme priorities, and eligibility criteria. The Convention states that
the operation of the financial mechanism can be entrusted to one or more international entities with
"an equitable and balanced representation of all Parties within a transparent system of
governance". The COP has given this responsibility to the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
The Global Environment Facility was established in 1991, before the start of the Convention
negotiations. The idea of an international mechanism to support projects benefiting the global
environment was first discussed in 1987 by the Brundtland Commission. The GEF was launched several
years later with the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) as implementing agencies. By the time the Earth Summit was held
in 1992, the GEF was considered a possible source of funds for implementation of the biodiversity and
climate change conventions.
The GEF pays the "agreed full incremental costs" of projects to protect the global
environment. GEF funds complement regular development assistance, offering developing countries
the opportunity to incorporate environmentally-friendly features that address global environmental
concerns. For example, if a country invests in a new power plant to promote economic development, the
GEF may provide the additional, or incremental, funds needed to buy equipment for reducing the
emissions of greenhouse gases. In this way, GEF funds normally cover only a portion of a
project's entire costs. The GEF also funds enabling activities, including the "agreed full
costs" of preparing national communications.
The available funds are based on voluntary contributions from governments. During the
"pilot phase" of 1991-94, the GEF trust fund contained $800 million from participating
governments. When the GEF was later restructured to make it more universal, democratic, and
transparent, it was replenished from July 1994 through June 1998 with $2 billion. The second
replenishment for the four-year period ending June 2002 was based on pledges totaling $2.75 billion.
Pledges for the four-year period starting July 2002 total $2.92 billion from 32 donor countries.
Projects must be country-driven and based on national priorities that support sustainable
development. The GEF covers four focal areas: climate change, biological diversity, international
waters, and (for East European and Central Asian countries only) protection of the ozone layer. In
addition, activities to combat land degradation (primarily desertification and deforestation) have
been approved for funding since they are relevant to some focal areas. (The GEF Council agreed in
2001 to consider setting up new focal areas for the Convention to Combat Desertification as well as
the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.) Also eligible are the agreed incremental
costs of other activities under Agenda 21, insofar as they achieve global environmental benefits in
the focal areas. Since 1991, the GEF has allocated some US$1.5 billion in grants to climate change
projects and activities; this funding has leveraged an additional $5 billion in co-financing
contributions. Climate change now represents about a third of the GEF's portfolio.
In addition to technical assistance and investment projects, the GEF supports various
"enabling activities." These activities help countries to develop the necessary
institutional capacity for developing and carrying out strategies and projects. In particular, the
GEF pays the full costs of preparing the national communications that are required by the Climate
Change Convention. Projects relating to grassroots action sponsored by non-governmental organizations
are supported through a Small Grants Programme managed by UNDP, while medium-sized projects (under $1
million) can be financed through UNDP, UNEP, or the World Bank. Besides directly providing grants,
the GEF facilitates other bilateral, co-financing, and parallel financing arrangements. It also
promotes the leveraging of private-sector participation and resources.
Funding proposals are submitted to the GEF through one of the three implementing agencies.
UNDP, UNEP, and the World Bank each has its own special role to play in promoting projects and
supporting the GEF process. The GEF Secretariat oversees the work programme and helps to ensure that
projects comply with COP decisions and with GEF programming strategies and policies. Once approved,
projects are carried out by a wide range of agencies, such as government ministries, non-governmental
organizations (NGOs), UN bodies, regional multilateral institutions, and private firms. The final
authority for all funding decisions and operational, programmatic, and strategic issues is vested in
the GEF Council. The Council consists of 32 of the GEF's 166 members and meets semi-annually,
while the Assembly of all participating countries meets every three years.
In 1998, the Parties to the Convention asked the GEF to continue operating the financial
mechanism. They decided to review the financial mechanism's effectiveness again within four
years; this second review is expected to conclude by November 2002. As required by the Convention,
the Conference of the Parties continues to provide guidance on the GEF's policies, programme
priorities, and eligibility criteria relating to climate change projects. It has emphasized that
projects funded by the GEF should be cost-effective and supportive of national development
priorities, and that they should focus, at least initially, on enabling activities that help
developing countries prepare and submit information about their implementation of the Convention.
In July 2001, the COP created three new funds to further assist developing countries. A
Special Climate Change Fund and a least developed countries fund are being established under the
Convention to help developing countries adapt to climate change impacts, obtain clean technologies,
and limit the growth in their emissions. In addition, an Adaptation Fund is being set up under the
Kyoto Protocol to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes (The COP will guide the Fund
until the Protocol enters into force). Many developed countries also pledged a combined contribution
of €450 million per year by 2005 through these funds plus existing avenues to help developing
countries manage their emissions and adapt to climate change.
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Racism's Rainbow
Ty Cobb could not play baseball today. Oh, maybe he had the skills and the guts to succeed but you wouldn't find him in the majors. There's one simple reason for this. Bigtime sports depend on marketing and it's really hard to market a racist ^sshole. Just look at John Rocker. Say the wrong thing to the wrong person and soon enough you're signing baseball cards at convention centers instead of trotting in from the bullpen.
Now, it hasn't always been this way and the fact that a guy like Ty Cobb is in the Hall of Fame shows that sometimes those lesser angels of our nature don't disqualify you from everything in life. But in the last few years, as baseball and other sports have become more dependent on the revenue generated by the family friendly aspects of the game, it has become rarer and rarer to see someone go off and really call it like they see it. That's why I want to remind us all of some of the more glaring instances in a segment I like to call: Holy Sh!t! Did he really just say that?
Gary Sheffield:
I begin with my hometown Tigers and an homage to our recently departed designated hitter. Now, Sheff has been a fount of inspired insanity over the years and everyone knows about his comments regarding Latino players. He also famously said that Derek Jeter wasn't "All the way black." But the genius of Sheff can only truly be summed up in his response to a question about fathering two children before he was old enough to vote: "That was part of my plan. I didn't want to be the typical athlete who's single all his career." Sheff shows that racism comes in a rainbow of colors.
John Rocker:
Quite possibly the biggest homophobe and xenophobe to emerge from baseball since Ty Cobb, Rocker once remarked, "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the
foreigners … You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not
hear anybody speaking English." Even his annual apologies provided nonstop fun. Only Rocker could manage to understate the severity of a situation by starting out "My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as
well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a
racist." However, he also manages to retain the power to confound his critics and proved it once again by taking up with the beautiful Alicia. You stay classy, John Rocker!
Norm MacDonald:
However, nothing quite tops this video of Norm Coleman hosting the Espy's a decade ago. Do yourself a favor. Even if you can't quite sit through the entire eight and a half minutes, fast forward to the 7:53 minute mark and prepare to be amazed by the absolute sadistic ruthlessness with which he builds up Charles Woodson and then cuts him off at the ankles. It ain't pretty but it gets him a spot on RSBS:
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I sat through all eight and a half minutes of Norm MacDonald. Which I think deserves a prize in itself. I didn't think it could get worse, but it kept getting worse. Then I got to Charles Woodson. Oh dear God.
I got to chat a few times with John Rocker. The guy is very spiritual, but he is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
He did have a few revelations after that article pushing New Yorkers and a few other groups of people off the elevated Subway platform.
But, he did have a few cocktails while being interviewed, which is not an excuse, but he also thought most of that was "off the record" since they were drinking. Brainfart 101 mistake.
Sheffy had so many problems when he hung out with Uncle Dwight in Tampa you thought they might be the next Bobsy-twins of baseball. Thank goodness he left his uncle's side before he really got into trouble……..Oh, I forgot, they did get arrested together.
Rays Renegade
Oh lord. That was terrible. How did they let that happen?
Gary Sheffield is a loser. My favorite part about him being released is all of the Indians fans who either said: 1) The Indians should pick him up (great plan guys… after he beats up our #2 starter and second baseman and catcher how well do you think he'll fit in?) or 2) I wanted to see part #2 of "the fight" this year! Classy guys.
There needs to be a "30 second rule" before some of these guys speak! How sad they are.
The funny thing about the Rocker comment was I was in NYC at the time and nobody cared! Nobody cared because it was true and everyone knew it. That's what makes NYC great is the diversity, but the other parts of the country took up arms and the guy got lambasted. I can't tell you what he meant in saying it but the fact is you can walk down a lot of blocks all over great city and you'll come across more diversity then you would in any other place in America.
Ty Cobb was a maniac… but it's not like he had the best childhood either. As I was writing my research paper, I speculated myself about the differences in the times, and how they would correlate today (as you said, they would not). Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first African-American in professional baseball, didn't last too long in it… and it was so bad that he urged people to emigrate back to Africa. Good to see that we are at least making significant progress towards a more accepting society. It's not perfect yet, but there has to be some badness to clearly define what is good.
Sheff is just……. sorry, couldn't think of any words to describe him that wouldn't get censored.
I loved his homers as a Yankee, but he was too big of a jerk to stay a Yankee. I'm surprised the Mets made the move to pick up someone with that big of a head and nothing filling it up, but so be it.
That Norm MacDonald vid was something. My favorite part would have to be the look on Griffey's face the entire time. He's like wow, is he really saying this? Lol.
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Renegade, that might be true for that article, but Rocker continually said boneheaded, offensive thing after boneheaded, offensive thing.
I would argue, though, that Rocker marketed himself. Baseball had absolutely no trouble selling tickets when Rocker was pitching. It was when his WHIP climbed from 1.158 to 1.726 and he started giving up better than a home run per inning that he got bounced.


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Originally Posted by BlackDude
Let's see how many people dislike the same character...or who just simply dislike!
Post A Character you dislike
I dislike Kakashi for two reason he isnt a Uchiha , but using the sharingan . And he killed Rin, but always *****ed at Sasuke in part 1 about friends n crap..
So you dislike Kakashi because he took a present from a dying friend and decided to make the most of it? Very logical.
Any character who isn't Sasuke
Originally Posted by Chatte
Well the Uchiha massacre is slightly difficult because in some sort of way I agree with him, in another I don't.
However, in Pein Arc I just couldn't stand the fact that he was all there calm while Konoha was falling down and everyone was doing their best just to keep it alive.
Just because he wanted to take Tsunade's Hokage title and to rule over Konoha.
Well, hello! To rule over what if your own homeland is being destroyed?
I agree with you on that.. If Naruto wouldnt of came he wouldnt of had a homeland to rule
i forgot - killer bee annoying
& the elders from konoha if sasuke is gonna kill someone it should be this 2 A holes
Kakashi, Tsunade, Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto.
Originally Posted by BlackDude
I agree with you on that.. If Naruto wouldnt of came he wouldnt of had a homeland to rule
It showed to me that in this particular reason he is very selfish. He just wants it for the name, not for what a Hokage means.
Originally Posted by Ldude
Sakura haters... Sakura haters everywhere.
So what? Haters gonna hate!
Sakura haters... Sakura haters everywhere.
Originally Posted by Mitsuzaki
Kakashi, Tsunade, Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto.
lol you basicly dont like the main characters and whats with all this sakura hate. she is awesome
Karin, she's gross
Originally Posted by Regina
Karin, she's gross
KARIN IS cool bro & uzumaki
No she's all scarred up and she steals sasukes dirty clothes to smell them, she's gross.
Madara, Madara, Obito, and, oh yeah, Madara. His arrogance is so over the top and is only broken through to show how butthurt he is over losing to Hashirama. Obito's whole I have no reason for living thing is quite annoying. Same with Sasuke but i liked him before he got MS.
Originally Posted by Superior
How can you dislike a character because of their fanboys/fangirls? Just hate the obsessive fans xD
I hate Kakashi and Minato fans that delude themselves into thinking that said characters are unbeatable because of Kamui/FTG.
Just makes the rest of their fanbase look bad..
-I guess that's right. Idk I just can't look at Minato like I used to anymore without thinking of his fans lol.
-Yea I'm with you on the Kakashi fans as well(even though I am one) I try to explain how Kakashi can beat others without Kamui but at the same time Kamui is his tech so... yea
starting to dislike kakashi, these chapters as of late have everyone believing he can kamui anyone's head off at a moments notice.
Originally Posted by SatchiZurake
Madara, Madara, Obito, and, oh yeah, Madara. His arrogance is so over the top and is only broken through to show how butthurt he is over losing to Hashirama. Obito's whole I have no reason for living thing is quite annoying. Same with Sasuke but i liked him before he got MS.
Uchiha hater?
Originally Posted by typezero
no love for kabuto
I really dislike Kakashi's fanbase. I am hating them, actually, more so than Danzo and the elders.
He became Jonin as a kid and uses sharingan as a Hatake better than majority of the Uchiha clan (1st with Obito having ms after Madara/Izuna)
I would rank Kakashi top 5 if he had as much chakra as Naruto or at least Obito. Kishi was "forced" to make him go out of chakra very fast. Otherwise he is way too op. (knows over 1000 jutsus + 4 nature manipulation--->similar to a Rinnegan user)
Im not a fanboy, just manga facts
This is why! So now, when manga says that only an Uchiha can be a true master, Kakashi can use it better.
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#28755 - 05/09/01 10:56 AM Distance learning
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Computers and the web allow to explore the possibility of teaching even without a teacher close to the student.
Does someone remember if there were experiments in this sense? I remember a movie in which - in Australia - there were radio - classes, since the distances were so big. I would like to know more about this.
#28756 - 05/09/01 12:41 PM Re: Distance learning
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It slowly growing-- My job title is sr. network engineer-- but what i really do is develop training-- currently, at a US govenment agency office-- we have in the past had almost exclusively Intructor Lead Training...
but are currently expanding-- I have developed one class that is a self directed class in Notes.. and we (a team including me) are also doing a CD training class-- using Freelance (powerpoint) presentation software and audio/video clips (something i have done before for a large, Nationally chartered, international bank). and an other member of the team is doing some web based training to run on our intranet.
The bank (unlike the gov agency) included vidio clips "Talking Heads"-- Management felt training worked better with and "Instructor" even if the instructor could be spoken too-- the wanted a "headshot"-- and not just my disembodied voice explaining things...
right now, most of the users prefer Instructor Lead Ttraining.. and the sefl directed course in Notes works best when done as a Workshop-- Users "work through" them selves, but there is an instructor nearby for questions.
research shows that most of us read slower on a CRT monitor-- this is sometimes an advantage for training.. over 90% of our training is still ILT_________________________
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#28757 - 05/10/01 06:36 AM Re: Distance learning
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Yes, I'd be interested in knowing more about it too. In the US more and more parents are taking their children out of public schools and "home schooling" them, using a system originally developed in Australia for the same reason as were radio classes: long distances.
Also, a friend is getting her master's degree in astronomy via the internet. It's offered by a university in Australia.
And if you need any help in translating Helen of Troy's post, just let me know
#28758 - 05/10/01 09:07 AM Re: Distance learning
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Hi Emanuela
I am currently studying with the Open University, which has pioneered distance learning very successfully, to the point where it is now the UKs largest university.
Through some 40 years of development, they have put together some top quality materials and processes across an extraordinary range of subjects, and are ranked amongst the best educational institutions in the UK by the official assessments.
They seem to be offering quite a lot of web-based stuff now as well, and students are certainly based all over the world. This might be a starting point if you want to check it out:
or as Google gives it:
The Open University, the UK's largest university for part-time higher education,
offering among the world's best distance education materials for undergraduate ...
Open and distance learning. Study methods, courses, teaching, knowledge media, research.
#28759 - 05/10/01 03:28 PM Re: Distance learning
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My employer has a number of training courses available on line. Now, if I just had the uninterrupted time to try them ...
#28760 - 05/10/01 09:53 PM Re: Distance learning
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Loc: Chicago, IL, USA
Where I work we recently started offering on-line courses in some of our bachelor programs, as an addition to the Masters level ones that have been around in our system for a few years. Also we have a group of staff & faculty at our midwest sites who are earning their PH'ds though a combined on-line & seat-time delevery from Colorado State.
The quailty of the outcomes for everyone invloved is very dependant on who the people are and how involved they are in the process. From course creation to delivery and administration of the backround processes of education, flexibilty & appropriateness of course content seem to be keys to a good progam.
#28761 - 05/11/01 04:54 AM Re: Distance learning
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Competition between the plethora of tertiary institutions in Zild has led to the weird situation where in Wellington there are two universities operating full-time - Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University - and an Auckland polytechnic is offering Masters courses in Wellington through a mixture of on-line and weekend study groups, mostly with help from noddies like me.
Counting the polytechnics, there are seven degree-granting schools in the town. All for a population of about 400,000.
Funnily enough, Wellington is the most tertiary-qualified city in New Zealand. I forget the percentage, but it's quite significant, for some strange reason._________________________
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#28762 - 06/03/01 10:29 PM Re: Distance learning
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Posts: 163
I am enrolled at the University of Waterloo (uwaterloo.ca) in the MOT@Distance program which is for a Master's degree in applied science in the Management of Technology. Tutorials are once per week using realaudio with simultaneous chat and whiteboards. Assignments are submitted via e-mail or fax. So far, five semesters into the program, it has been fun, but tough. Although, with 28 month-old and 9 month-old sons, there is no other way I could pursue such a program in a conventional setting without sacrificing my family, something I am not willing to do.
Waterloo also has full 3- and 4-year undergraduate programs that can be done by distance. Most of these courses have lectures sent at the beginning of term on cassettes with a schedule of assignments to be sent in. You can also contact the professor or, in some cases, other students.
#28763 - 06/07/01 01:10 AM Re: Distance learning
Registered: 01/18/01
Posts: 618
Loc: Australia
Despite being a true blue Aussie, my knowledge on this subject is unfortunately quite limited. Distance education, or learning, or whatever, is used in Australia from primary school to University degrees and beyond. The most well known example has existed for something like 30-ish years (I think) and is called the "School of the Air". It provides primary school level education through to most the the secondary school final year subjects. I couldn't find a nice web site to explain the whole thing, but search away.
Hope this helps.
Rapport was established superficially.
#28764 - 10/11/01 05:58 AM Re: Distance learning
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/conted/openstudies/courses/c writing/dlcwinternet.htm
are links to Lancaster University's distance learning courses using the Internet. The first is, appropriately enough, Designing Web Pages; the second is one of two Internet-taught Creative Writing courses.
Creative Writing has been going successfully for over a year, now, and we have recently introduced an intermediate course to follow the first one. Designing Web Pages is rather newer, but seems to have hit a spot in the market that needed filling.
We are currently working on a complete Certificate programme of Learning Skills for H.E., of six modules, which can be delivered either by Internet or by face-to-face (or, indeed by the old-fashioned correspondence course method!) or by a mixture of both. I'll let you know how we get on with that one when it is up and running.
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Does Teaching Kids To Get 'Gritty' Help Them Get Ahead?
It's become the new buzz phrase in education: "Got grit?"
Around the nation, schools are beginning to see grit as key to students' success — and just as important to teach as reading and math.
Experts define grit as persistence, determination and resilience; it's that je ne sais quoi that drives one kid to practice trumpet or study Spanish for hours — or years — on end, while another quits after the first setback.
"This quality of being able to sustain your passions, and also work really hard at them, over really disappointingly long periods of time, that's grit," says Angela Duckworth, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania who coined the term "grit" — and won a MacArthur "genius grant" for it.
"It's a very, I think, American idea in some ways — really pursuing something against all odds," she says.
Duckworth says her research shows grit is actually a better predictor of success than IQ or other measures when it comes to achievements as varied as graduating from West Point or winning the National Spelling Bee.
Even the Obama administration is now on the "grit" bandwagon. A 2013 report from the Department of Education laments that kids are learning to "do school," but aren't learning the skills they need in life.
But can grit be taught?
"I hope so," says Duckworth, "but I don't think we have enough evidence to know with certainty that we can do so." Part of the problem is figuring out how to assess grit. Duckworth says "these things are really hard to measure with fidelity."
Even so, many schools around the nation have embarked on their own experiments — they see the promise of the concept as too great to wait.
Letting Kids 'Hit The Wall'
Jason Baehr, a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University, recently launched the Intellectual Virtues Academy in Long Beach, Calif. It's a charter middle school that's a kind of petri dish for grit, along with other so-called virtues like intellectual courage and curiosity.
"This is all anecdotal at this point," Baehr says. "But I'll say from our experience in the school, I see [kids learning to be grittier] all the time. ... You can create a classroom culture in which struggle and risk-taking is valued more than just getting the right answer."
One way to make kids more tenacious, the thinking goes, is to show them how grit has been important to the success of others, and how mistakes and failures are normal parts of learning — not reasons to quit.
That message underlies every lesson at the Lenox Academy for Gifted Middle School Students in Brooklyn, N.Y., a public school that has been trying to make kids grittier for the past three years. On a recent day, in a typical lesson, a social studies class is studying Steve Jobs. Kids raise their hands to offer examples of Jobs' grit.
"He had failed one of the Mac projects he was creating," says one student.
"He used his mistakes to help him along his journey," says another.
Students also get to practice being gritty themselves. When a kid struggles to answer a question, for example, teachers resist the urge to swoop in and offer hints. Instead, they let students squirm a little through an awkward silence. The idea is to get kids comfortable with struggle so they see it as just a normal part of learning.
Tom Hoerr leads the New City School, a private elementary school in St. Louis that has also been working on grit. "One of the sayings that you hear around here a great deal is, 'If our kids have graduated from here with nothing but success, then we have failed them, because they haven't learned how to respond to frustration and failure.' "
After years of focusing on the theory known as "multiple intelligences" and trying to teach kids in their own style, Hoerr says he's now pulling kids out of their comfort zones intentionally.
"The message is that life isn't always easy," Hoerr says. His goal is to make sure "that no matter how talented [students are], they hit the wall, so they can learn to pick themselves up, hit the wall again and pick themselves up again, and ultimately persevere and succeed."
It is a major adjustment for everyone — perhaps most of all for parents. "It's really easy to talk about in the abstract," Hoerr says. "Parents love the notion of grit; they all want their kids to have it. However ... no parent wants their kid to cry."
Changing Mindsets To Help Kids Persevere
To get parents and kids on board with the idea of struggle, educators say, they first need to be convinced that their struggle is likely to pay off. Or, as Stanford University professor Carol Dweck puts it, they need to have a "growth mindset" — the belief that success comes from effort — and not a "fixed mindset" — the notion that people succeed because they are born with a "gift" of intelligence or talent.
"It's really hard to have high tolerance if you believe that your abilities or intelligence are fixed," says Eduardo Briceno, CEO of Mindset Works, a company he co-founded with Dweck. "Because if you believe 'I can't change my own abilities,' then trying hard doesn't make any sense. It's like pounding your head against the wall."
Indeed, educators say they see it all the time: Kids with fixed mindsets who think they just don't have the "gift" don't bother applying themselves. Conversely, kids with fixed mindsets who were always told they were "gifted" and skated through school tend to crumble when they hit their first challenge; rather than risk looking like a loser, they just quit.
"Kids came to our middle school, and when that curriculum got tough, a majority of them retreated," says Joe Giamportone, assistant principal of Lenox Academy. "Performance declined over the course of three years."
Seventh-grader Jamal Parris is typical. After arriving at Lenox Academy, he began to struggle in math.
"I started thinking that I wasn't that smart and I didn't deserve to make it into this school," says Parris. "When I was in fifth grade, I used to be so good at math. And then when I came to Lenox Academy, like, I just hit a wall. I was like, 'Whaaat? Letters in math?!'
"I couldn't understand anything," he continues. "Some days I wouldn't even go home to study, because I was like, 'I'm just gonna get a low grade anyway, even if I study.' "
That's what launched Giamportone on a kind of crusade three years ago to root out that kind of fixed mindset. Since then, he says, everyone at school has done such a mental and cultural 180 that even the very name of the Lenox Academy for Gifted Middle School Students is like a dirty word.
"We don't use the word 'gifted' — ever," Giamportone says. "In our school, you will never hear it."
" 'Smart' is like a curse," adds social studies teacher June Davenport.
Instead, the school is plastered with signs and handmade posters promoting a "growth mindset."
"This is a term in every class: 'Use the growth mindset. Have the growth mindset,' " says eighth-grader Alena Blaise. "You can put forth the effort to get something that you want."
The message is not unlike what Grandma always said: "You can do anything," "Just practice, practice, practice," and, "Don't give up!" But Alena says what convinced her was the science.
The Mindset Works curriculum starts with Brainology, a kid-friendly computer-animated crash course in how the brain works like a muscle; the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
"I learned how, every single day, the more you learn things, the more neurons that pop out of your brain," says sixth-grader Nyashka Laurore. Even after a few lessons, she says, she stopped feeling like school was just something she couldn't do.
Changing Approaches In The Classroom
The focus is always more on putting out effort than on getting the right answers. Teachers have been trained to change the way they see students, and how they speak to them.
Kids no longer hear "You're so smart!" or "Brilliant!" Rather, teachers praise students for their focus and determination. "You must have worked really hard!" or "To have performed this well, you must have put out a lot of effort."
The adjustment isn't always easy for teachers trained to focus on hitting high scores on standardized tests. "It's really hard in certain subject areas to say that your process is more important than your product," says science teacher Nicole Trubnikov. "But that is the underlying principle of this program — to say that it's all the effort that you put in that's most important."
Some schools even grade students on "growth mindset" and "grit." It doesn't make it onto report cards at Lenox, but kids do get evaluated on it in class by teachers — and by other kids.
In one history class, for example, eighth-graders observe their classmates discussing a reading passage, and then rate them on things like "learning from past mistakes."
"Normally, Timothy, he likes to talk to his friends outside of the group and, like, interrupt, and he don't pay attention that well, but [this time, he was] able to take charge," offers one student.
"If I was an outsider and I was hearing this conversation, I might think that this was some kind of hippie-dippie lovefest," concedes the teacher, Nathan Cearley. "But what you see is actually a more rigorous and risky learning environment."
In three years, Cearley says, he's seen kids grow less afraid of making mistakes, and more willing to ask for help. Test scores at Lenox have jumped 10 to 15 points.
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The number of schools using Brainology is expected to double this year, from 500 to 1,000. But even Briceno concedes they are still just small islands in a culture that may give lip service to earning an "A for effort," but that still rewards grades and scores above all.
Duckworth, the grit guru who's also experimenting with making middle-schoolers grittier, agrees. A limited intervention, she says, if not consistently reinforced in and out of school, can only have limited results. "We don't know whether we've had any effect — the jury's out," says Duckworth. "It just seems to me extremely implausible that that's going to permanently and impressively change a child."
Indeed, even after three years at Lenox Academy, sometimes all it takes is one bad test score for kids to lapse back into the old mindset of "I'm just not good at math."
"Grit as a goal seems to be multiply flawed and very disturbing," says education writer Alfie Kohn. For starters, he says, "the benefits of failure are vastly overstated, and the assumption that kids will pick themselves up and try even harder next time, darn it — that's wishful thinking."
Kohn sees the focus on grit as just the latest fad in education that will soon "burn itself out," like many have before. He doesn't believe that kids today are any less gritty than before. And he says the research showing that gritty people tend to be more successful doesn't really offer any new insight. As Kohn put it, "It's a pure circular assumption, like persistent people persist."
Besides, Kohn says, if there's a problem with how kids are learning, the onus should be on schools to get better at how they teach — not on kids to get better at enduring more of the same.
"Grit's taken off as a fad in education, because that's a convenient distraction that doesn't address the pedagogical and curricular problems in the schools," he says. "But the more we focus on [grit] ... the less likely it is that we make the kind of changes that can help our children go to better schools."
Some have also raised concerns about grading kids on grit and with calling grit a "good character trait" or a "virtue." As University of Pennsylvania education professor Joan Goodman puts it, those are very loaded words with moral overtones.
"The language is important, because you're talking about virtues, you're talking about character, and ... you don't want to generate the notion that you are a bad kid if you are not gritty, and you're a good kid if you are," says Goodman.
Besides, Goodman says, grit may not be a character trait at all, but rather a byproduct of other traits, like confidence, courage and curiosity. And, she says, people can be gritty in some things but not others. A kid might be passionate about chess, for example, but completely disengaged in chemistry class.
That's a point well taken by Duckworth. She agrees that schools, teachers and parents all share in the responsibility to help inspire kids so they're intrinsically motivated.
"I don't think people can become truly gritty and great at things they don't love," Duckworth says. "So when we try to develop grit in kids, we also need to find and help them cultivate their passions. That's as much a part of the equation here as the hard work and the persistence."
It's a little bit of a chicken-and-egg kind of question. Passion may drive kids to be gritty, but being gritty and able to tolerate failure also enables kids to develop and pursue a passion.
Just ask eighth-grader Alena. Several years ago, she quit the viola out of fear that she would embarrass herself. "I found it so difficult to learn, and I said, 'I'm just not good at this, so I might as well not try,' " she says. "And soon enough, I just put my viola up there on top of the closet, and that was the end of that."
But now, three years into the growth-mindset training at Lenox Academy, Alena says, she believes "you can teach old dogs new tricks."
"I think that if I just put in enough effort I can be the next Yao Ming," she declares. As her classmates begin to giggle beside her, she stammers, "I mean, Yo-Yo Ming. I mean, Yo-Yo Ma!"
Mistakes like that one will always be embarrassing, Alena says. But now, she recovers more easily. She's one who got the message, as they say around here, that the secret to success is failure.
There is a new buzz word in education. Around the nation schools are beginning to see grit as key to students' success. New research suggests that grit, or resilience and persistence, may be just as important to teach as reading and math. This morning we examine this concept. Later on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED we'll visit a school that's teaching it. But first, here's Grit 101 from NPR's Tovia Smith.
TOVIA SMITH, BYLINE: Call it persistence, determination, resilience or simply that je ne sais quoi that drives one kid to practice trumpet or study Spanish for hours or years on end while another quits after the first setback.
ANGELA DUCKWORTH: This quality of being able to sustain your passions and also work really hard at them over really kind disappointingly long periods of time, that's grit.
SMITH: University of Pennsylvania Psychology Professor Angela Duckworth coined the term grit, winning a MacArthur Genius Grant for it.
DUCKWORTH: It is a reference to the Western, you know, starring John Wayne, which is about a little 13-year-old girl who sort of does this really gritty, amazing thing.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: (as character) No grit, Rooster Cogburn, not much.
DUCKWORTH: It's a very, I think, American idea in some ways, you know, really pursuing something against all odds.
SMITH: Duckworth says her research shows grit is actually a better predictor of success than IQ or anything else when it comes to things as varied as graduating West Point or winning the national spelling bee. Even the federal government's now on the grit bandwagon. A recent report laments how kids are learning to do school but aren't learning the skills they need in life, like grit. But can grit be taught?
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL #1: I hope so, but I don't think we have enough evidence to know with certainty that we can do so. You know, these things are really hard to measure with fidelity.
JASON BAER: You know, this is all anecdotal at this point, but I'll say from our experience in the school, I see it happen all the time.
SMITH: Loyola Marymount University Philosophy Professor Jason Baer is one of many around the nation who see the promise of grit too great to wait. He's just launched the Intellectual Virtues Academy of Long Beach, a charter middle school that's a kind of petri dish for grit, along with other so called virtues like intellectual courage and curiosity.
BAER: I'm not saying that we have the secret solution to all of education's problems. But you can create a classroom culture in which struggle and risk taking is valued more than just being able to get the right answer.
JUNE DAVENPORT: So who was Steve Jobs and what do you know about him? Dylan?
DYLAN: Steve Jobs started a company called Apple.
SMITH: At the Lenox Academy, a public middle school in New York, the idea of grit underlies every lesson, sometimes explicitly, like in this one with teacher June Davenport.
DAVENPORT: Anything else? Yeah.
DYLAN: He had failed on one of the Mac projects he was creating.
DAVENPORT: You're right. He not only failed, he also got fired. Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: He used mistakes to, like, help him along his journey.
DAVENPORT: Excellent.
SMITH: The idea is to make kids see how grit matters and also to make them practice it themselves. It's why teachers like Christa Quint have learned to let kids squirm a little through challenging work.
CHRISTA QUINT: Six minus 2x and then what's next step right here?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: OK. What you have to do is I think you have to add 2x.
QUINT: If I add 2x, what I get back is this expression.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: Yeah, so you have to add, subtract it.
QUINT: The goal is to get Y equal to something.
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD: So, you have to divide.
TOM HOERR: One of the sayings that you hear around here a great deal is if our kids have graduated from here with nothing but success, we have failed them, because they haven't learned how to respond to frustration and failure.
SMITH: Tom Hoerr has been working on grit for a couple years at the private elementary school he heads in St. Louis called the New City School. After years of focus on the theory known as multiple intelligences, and trying to teach kids in their own style, Hoerr says he's now purposely pulling kids outside their comfort zones.
HOERR: The message is life isn't always easy. And I think part of the trajectory is making sure that no matter how talented kids are, they hit the wall so they can learn to pick themselves up, hit the wall again, pick themselves up again, and ultimately persevere and succeed.
SMITH: It's a mental and cultural 180, Hoerr says. And no surprise, he gets a lot of pushback from parents.
HOERR: It's really easy to talk about it in the abstract. Parents love the notion of grit. They all want their kids to have it; semi-colon, however, comma, no parent wants their kid to cry.
SMITH: Indeed, it's a fine line between challenging kids and pushing so hard they crack.
ALFIE KOHN: The benefits of failure are vastly overstated.
SMITH: That's education writer Alfie Kohn.
KOHN: And the assumption that kids will pick themselves up, you know, try even harder next time, darn it, that's wishful thinking.
SMITH: Kohn says he doesn't believe that kids today are any less gritty, and he says the research showing that gritty people tend to be more successful doesn't really offer any new insight.
KOHN: It's a pure circular assumption like persistent people persist.
SMITH: Besides, Kohn says, if there's a problem with how kids are learning, the onus should be on schools to get better at how they teach, not on kids to get better at enduring more of the same.
KOHN: Grit's taken off like a fad in education because that's a convenient distraction that doesn't address the pedagogical and curricular problems in the schools. The more focus there is on self-discipline, the less likely it is that we make the kind of changes that can help our children go to better schools.
SMITH: Kohn says he's also concerned about grading kids on grit and with calling grit a good character trait or a virtue. As University of Pennsylvania Education Professor Joan Goodman puts it, those are very loaded words with moral overtones.
JOAN GOODMAN: The language is important because you're talking about virtues, you're talking about character, you're talking about being good person. And to me you've got to be very careful with your words because you don't want to generate the notion that you are a bad kid if you're not gritty and you're a good kid if you are.
SMITH: Besides, Goodman says, grit may not be a character trait at all but rather a byproduct of other traits like confidence, courage and curiosity. And, she says, people can be gritty in some things but not others. So, for example, a kid may be passionate about chess but completely disengaged in chemistry class. It's a point well taken by Angela Duckworth, the grit guru. She agrees it's on schools and teachers and parents to help inspire kids so they're intrinsically motivated.
DUCKWORTH: I don't think people can become truly gritty and great at things they don't love. So, when we try to develop grit in kids, we also need to help them find and cultivate their passions. You know, that's as much part of the equation here as the hard work and the persistence.
SMITH: Another part of the equation, Duckworth says, is getting kids to believe that success is possible. It only makes sense if you want to get kids to hang in and keep struggling, you have to first convince them that their struggle is likely to pay off. It's why the most promising programs aimed at making kids grittier focus on changing kids' attitudes about their own abilities. Later today on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED we'll visit one of those programs that's been showing some success. Tovia Smith, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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