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A Roof without Walls: Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy and the Misdirection of American Education

Plato wrote that higher order thinking could not start until the student had mastered conventional wisdom. The American educational establishment has turned Plato on his head with the help of a dubious approach to teaching developed by one Benjamin Bloom. Bloom's taxonomy was intended for highe...

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Published in:	Academic questions 2007-12, Vol.20 (4), p.347-355
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