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A Bigger Prize
How We Can Do Better Than the Competition
Margaret Heffernan . 2014 . 658.04 HEF . Beaverton Lib
Part I . Personal Best
p003 ch01 Oh, Brother!
p014 ref. 7 p331 Mark N. Bing 1999 "Hypercompetitiveness in Academia: Achieving Criterion-Related Validity From Item Context Specificity"
- p015 personality is biology, parental attachment, social support, culture, and experience
- p016 family dinners give-and-take, cut-and-thrust, passionate debate
- p017 Parents with mediation training allowed severe disputes, children became creative problem solvers
p017 Psychological de-identification refers to the process of consciously distancing oneself from certain aspects of the self—such as emotions, thoughts, roles, or behaviors—to gain perspective
p017 Frances Schachter children become different in order not to fight.
- p020 Wilbur and Orville Wright argued fiercely and often, benefiting their project
p022 Frans de Waal showed chimps dislike unfairness, reject unequal sharing.
p024 ch02 Making the Grade
p024 Charles Shubert MIT
p027 Amy Chua Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother "self-mocking memoir"
- p028 US youth unemployment rate, 26% unemployed age 25-24, lower wages in 2013 than in 2000
p029 Bright Kids $$$ tutoring for placement exams
- p030 focus on reading and math, not science, literature, history, civics, and the arts
- p031 students promised awards for drawing stopped drawing without rewards
p032 Joy Paul Guilford Convergent "one correct answer" thinking versus divergent thinking
- p032 kill childhood creativity
- (1) work for expected reward
- (2) focus pupils on expected evaluation
- (3) plenty of surveillance
- (4) setting up restricted choices
- (5) creating competitive situations
p033 C. J. Skender accounting teacher at Duke and UNC
- sees the best in his students
- climate of safety where mistakes are part of learning
- p033 worrier students good at homework, warrior students good at exams
- p036 rankings pit students against each other
- p036 people intensely motivated by choice of when and how to work, take ownership
- p037 the cost of motivating top 1 percent is demotivation of other 99 percent
- p037 college entrance résumé padding
- p039 American student debt over a trillion dollars
- 4 million graduates per year, 10 year payoff, $25K per graduate?
p040 Adderall illicit college student performance enhancer
p040 Stuyvesant High School 80% of students cheat rather than waste time on disliked subjects
- p041 95% of US students cheat in one form or another
p041 Turnitin plagiarism detection software
- p043 students of author's entrepreneurship course: "how would I grade them?"
- p044 learning for rewards not useful for future
- p045 Harvard Art|Science Team (?)
p045 St. Joseph Singapore
p047 Blackawton bees Biology Letters 2011 April 23
p049 PISA Program for International Student Assessment
- p049 Germany scored below OECD average, achievement more correlated with family socioeconomic status, students ranked and sorted into three tracks, limiting achievement
- p050 top performing schools do better job of educating everybody
- p050 Luxembourg most expensive schools, ranked near last in achievement
- p050 Margaret Thatcher says nations depend on a talented few
- p050 Finns explicitly rejected this, couldn't afford to waste any human talent
- p051 no standardized tests until eighth grade; written assessments but not grades
- p051 Finland not small, heterogeneous, fastest diversifying in Europe
- p052 We are such a small country, we cannot afford to lose any child
- p052 All Finn teachers must have master's degree, rated more highly than doctors, architects, and lawyers. Free to determine how they teach.
- p053 very little central government interference, schools and teachers autonomous
- p056 money only 20% of outcome, streaming and pay incentives ineffective
- p056 Finland 4th most scientific publications of the OECD countries, above average patents per capita
p058 ch03 The Morning After
p079 ch04 Angry Birds
p099 TechShop
p099 MiracleBrace
- p101
- p102 Bill Gore
- p102 Gore-Tex
- p103 PTFE
- p104 Terri Kelly
- p105 Morning Star
- p108 Nucor Steel
- p109 First Rand eBucks
- p110 Karl Rabeder Credot
p112 ch05 Keeping Score
- sports
- p124 Single US football player 1000 blows to head per season, 75% chance of concussions
- p124 NFL linemen 52% greater heart disease risk than general population
- p124 97% overweight, 50% obese
p125 6 suicides, dementia, chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- p125 second most dangerous sport cheerleading; risky stunts, untrained coaches, hard surfaces
- p128 former NFL suicide rate six times average, divorce rate 60-70%
p129 Don Catlin developed tests for street drugs
- p130 14% of athletes use banned substances, 2% are caught
- p131 Sports 2% of GDP
p131 2004 BALCO Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative supplied performance-enhancing drugs
p131 Victor Conte
p132 Travis Tygart
p134 Steven Baddeley
p135 Travis Tygart True Sport report
p137 Mike Brearley
p138 The Apprentice
Part II . The Case of the Purdue Chickens
p157 ch06 Only the Impresarios Survive
- p190 ref 39 John Abele "Bringing Minds Together", Harvard Business Review (July-August 2011).
Part III . The Business of Winning
p209 ch07 Clone Wars
p233 ch08 Supersize Everything
p267 ch09 How Low Can We Go?
p293 ch10 Top of the World
p320 ch11 A Bigger Prize