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The role of purpose in life in healthy identity formation: A grounded model

Cotton Bronk

2012

Adolescents had incredibly close ties between their purpose and identity. When teenagers understood their place in the world, they took more purposeful actions and understood more about who they were.

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"Learning Loss" Handbook

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June 2021

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The "Learning Loss" handbook outlines the narrative of "catch up" education being propagated by testing companies and policy makers.

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The purpose of this handbook is to unpack the complicated history of how we came to measure learning in the first place, why the definition of “learning” matters, and to examine how those measurements have been used from their inception to weaken our public schools. That history and context matters a great deal for understanding the shape of our education system, the values informing it, the ways we attempt to quantify its successes and failures, as well as what those measurements miss.

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Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave: How the Testing Industry Manufactured the "Learning Loss" Narrative

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And the more we reinforce this narrative of learning loss, it invalidates everything you just said. Right? Everything that I know that I've learned doesn't matter. Because we're still looking at this year, people didn't measure up. We didn't learn the things we're supposed to learn so now you're behind. Right. So now you're behind, learning loss. And it's really invalidating.

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