Your second link was an eye-opener. Can you recommend any textbooks or an online class (or its remains) that teaches Cobb's recommended curriculum?
http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Learning-Presence-Variation...
which I bought just more than three years ago after I read that. The textbook is quite thought-provoking, not just another Tweedledum to the usual Tweedledee of undergraduate statistics textbooks.