Looking back this week on Woodstock, forty years later, wondering if there was anything I had to add to everything that everyone who was or wasn't there has had to say, I realized I had actually learned a lot in those three days and that the lessons might be worth sharing.
In a diffusion chain learning situation what a chain member has actually learned from an earlier member of the chain is presented as the input to the next learner, and what that learner has actually learned provides the input to the following learner.
But when I've asked them what their son or daughter has actually learned, they seem at a loss, as if being well-educated can only be proven by a number.
For college admissions officers, it can be difficult to gauge what a student has actually learned in their previous education and even harder to determine whether they have the right core of knowledge and reasoning skills to succeed in a university environment.
And Mr. Rochon anticipates more of them in the future as the accountability movement begins to catch on in higher education: the tests evaluate what an undergraduate has actually learned.
Guillen not only offended Cuban-Americans, writes Israel Gutierrez on ESPN.com, but pretty much all decent human beings, and now we'll find out what everybody has actually learned from this, writes Howard Bryant on ESPN.com.
If you have followed it, you won't have actually learned all that much, because Brandis keeps changing his story.
