Education

Parents: More Vital to Education Than We Realize?0
- Education
- October 12, 2017
Sometimes it seems that America is on a never-ending quest to boost achievement and make education better. One year, classroom technology is the answer to the problems. The next year, the answer is universal preschool. The year after, test abolishment is believed to be the solution. And on it goes. But what if we’ve had
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Want to Raise a Capable Adult? Have Your Child Do These 5 Activities 0
- Education
- October 10, 2017
There have been several hopeful signs coming out of the doom and gloom generation – also known as millennials – in the last few months which seem to signal that they may finally be growing up. The first sign can be seen in birth rates, which, although still behind those of other generations, continue to
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Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future 0
- Education
- October 9, 2017
Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century American schooling mirrored the factories that most students would ultimately join. The bells and buzzers signaling when students could come and go,
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4 Ways to Make a Really Bad First Impression 0
- Education
- October 9, 2017
There is a hilarious scene in the Oscar-winning film La La Land that shows the easiest way to make a terrible first impression. Emma Stone’s character Mia arrives at a pool party and is introduced to a man named Carlo. The conversation begins fine. Carlo repeats Mia’s name, demonstrating that he’s paying attention. He firmly
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Study: Free College is Bad for Students 0
- Economics, Education
- October 6, 2017
One of the anomalies of the 2016 presidential election was the fact that an old white guy from Vermont was able to captivate a diverse audience of young millennials. The most obvious reason for Bernie Sanders’s popularity was his advocacy for free, government-funded college. With higher education costs multiplying at a rapid rate and college
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Boost Your Learning Capacity: 32 Amazing Tips 0
- Education
- October 6, 2017
Some might say that creativity is only for the chosen ones. But we don’t agree with that. Everyone can be creative. It’s only a matter of finding the right way to wake that creativity. A method that’s going to be the best for you. People are different. Each of us has our own character. We
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