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Teacher accountability schemes let teens off the hook -- WillinghamWashington Post (blog)My guest today is cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia and author of “Why Don't Students Like School? ...

"speak the language of the self as their native tongue. The individual has always come first, and feeling good about yourself has always been a primary virtue. Generation Me's expectations are highly optimistic: They expect to go to college, to make lots of money, and perhaps even to be famous. Yet this generation enters a world in which college admissions are increasingly competitive, good jobs are hard to find and harder to keep, and basic necessities like housing and health care have skyrocked in price.