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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 No Child Left Behind Race to the Top

• 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 Ron Wyden Know Before You Go

• 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 https://wetakeyourclass.com https://boostmygrade.com/

• 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 Teach Less, Learn More

• 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

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• p102 Bill Gore
• p102 Gore-Tex
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• p104 Terri Kelly
• p105 Morning Star
• p108 Nucor Steel
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• 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

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Part II . The Case of the Purdue Chickens

• p157 ch06 Only the Impresarios Survive

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• p190 ref 39 John Abele "Bringing Minds Together", Harvard Business Review (July-August 2011).

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Part III . The Business of Winning

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• p233 ch08 Supersize Everything

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• p267 ch09 How Low Can We Go?

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• p293 ch10 Top of the World

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• p320 ch11 A Bigger Prize