What’s More Important Than Attention? Lots of Stuff By valuing attention so highly, we crowd out other behaviors that may be critical to learning. Strategies like those used at KIPP and other “no-excuses” schools are only necessary because school is a rather grim march through proficiencies, rather than a place in which to engage with curiosities. The downside is that students who are steeped in these no-excuses experiences, despite sometimes stellar academic records, are ill prepared for the different challenges of higher education and the independent working world. Darryl Robinson, a
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