Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana are codirectors of The Right Question Institute (RQI). They have more than twenty years experience at RQI, designing and implementing innovative, participatory educational programs and curricula. Prior to his work with RQI, Rothstein developed and implemented education programs in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Israel. Santana is a former advocate for low-income parents and families. Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana are codirectors of The Right Question Institute (RQI). They have more than twenty years experience at RQI, designing and implementing innovative, participatory educational programs and curricula. Prior to his work with RQI, Rothstein developed and implemented education programs in Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Israel. Santana is a former advocate for low-income parents and families.
"[The authors] provide . . . an inspiring vision of education at
its best and an extraordinarily clear, low-tech, practical
intellectual tool for turning that vision into reality." --from the
foreword by Wendy D. Puriefoy, president, Public Education
Network
"As the title of this book indicates, Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana
believe that education can be transformed if students, rather than
teachers, assume responsibility for posing questions. This idea may
sound simple, but it is both complex and radical: complex, in that
formulating good, generative questions, and being prepared to work
toward satisfactory answers, is hardly a simple undertaking; and
radical, in the sense that an apparently easy move can bring about
a Copernican revolution in the atmosphere of the classroom and the
dynamics of learning. The authors modestly quote physicist Niels
Bohr who once said, 'An expert is someone who has made all possible
mistakes in a field and there are no more to be made.' In reading
this powerful work, I was reminded of what Albert Einstein said,
when he learned of Jean Piaget's pioneering questioning of young
children: 'so simple only a genius could have thought of it.'" --
Howard Gardner, The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of
Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"The protocols described in this book are easy to follow and
adaptable to a variety of classrooms and subjects. These simple
strategies can lead students to go into more depth in their
learning and stretch the standard curriculum beyond the textbook.
Students' energy, motivation, and perseverance increase noticeably
when they have more ownership of the topics they are studying." --
Hayley Dupuy, sixth-grade math and science teacher, J. L. Stanford
Middle School, Palo Alto, California
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