Learning Levers: Learners Inventing New Ways to Deepen, Broaden and Accelerate Their Learning
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I also want to recognize one other person who is responsible more than any other for the idea to create a Prize addressing this subject, and that person is my long-time colleague, frequent collaborator, sometime toughest critic, and close friend, Paul R. Dimond. The idea for this Prize grew out of many conversations over the years between us. Paul possesses a rare combination of keen intelligence, analytical insight, and visionary boldness that, when focused on an issue or idea, can only be described as extraordinary.
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