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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. What makes a great school?

The quality of teaching, class size, the budget? When it comes to school reform, everyone has an opinion.

In this hour, we'll talk about ways to improve education in America, whether by empowering students.

People of all ages tend to excel when they enjoy what they're doing, and they tend to enjoy

what they're doing more when they have some voice.

Or by taking the classroom into the home.

The idea is that you tap into a child's intrinsic desire to learn by setting them free to explore.

Today, rethinking schools and the way we teach.

Behind the debates over school reform lies a deeper question.

What exactly do kids need to be successful adults?

Schools can teach them math and science and how to write a grammatical

sentence, but the traits that lead to success later in life also include things like self-discipline

and emotional intelligence, and those can't be found in textbooks or measured by scan tron tests.

Or can they? Robert Sternberg is a professor of human development at Cornell University.

A psychologist by training, he also developed new tests and standards for admitting students at Tufts and at

Oklahoma State University. He believes we need to change the way we evaluate students, starting with

college entrance exams. I got interested in studying

intelligence actually as a young kid. When I was in elementary school, they used to, at least in

New Jersey, give group IQ tests every year, and I bombed them. And as a result, my teachers thought

I was stupid. I thought I was stupid.

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