An excellent and delightful article on a family's experience with an innovative Russian school. There are probably dozens of lessons on pedagogy embedded within.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/my-familys-experiment-in-extreme-schooling.html?src=me&ref=general
Here's another one, a little more obvious to me, although not, I suspect to those who occupy smiley-face planet.
Take home: grit is important to success in academics.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/magazine/what-if-the-secret-to-success-is-failure.html?pagewanted=1&ref=general&src=me&adxnnlx=1316257230-NUg7uokGWtnjXoj/ZeRH8w
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