For most of my years as a parent, I subscribed to the college-for-all mantra like the rest of my generation. I saw it as a basic degree needed to operate in […]
Preparing Our Children to Pioneer a New Frontier
Education and The Magic Thread
When my children were young, I used to read to them from The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett. We loved all the fables and parables but there was one story […]
Lifelong Learning Has Created Opportunities for Student Exploration Between High School and College
Listening to the stories of students who feel unworthy because they can’t or don’t want to go to college is heartbreaking. Equally distressing are the ones who come home without completing a […]
In An Automated World, Our Humanness Is The Advantage
“Robots Are Taking Over Everything!” Headlines like this create fear and insecurity about the future, especially in the job market, and lead us to question our children’s potential for success. While it […]
Rebalancing the Relationship Between School and Home
There are signs the pendulum is swinging back to its center point. Studies show that millennials choose work-life balance as their top priority, even if that means taking a lower salary to […]
Changing the Culture of Sameness: A Track for Everyone
We all want to belong. It is a fundamental human need. Children desire first to fit in with their families and communities, then with their friends as they move into adolescence. Families, […]
Pathway Choices: Alternatives to College
Take a dramatically changing economy, add high demand for specialized skills to a low supply of workers with those skills and what do you get? The creation of new pathways, designed to […]
Pathway Choices: College
High school students and their parents are so obsessed with the goal of college acceptance that few stop to think about the current realities of college or whether it is the right […]
The Power of Social Skills for Future Success
When my three daughters were young, they had a tradition of individual, one-on-one dinners with their grandparents each week. As my eldest daughter moved from 3rd to 4th grade, she had more […]
An Honest Look at A Sad Reality
As discussed in my most recent post, New Pathways to a Successful Adulthood, the mental and physical strain on students, especially during the long, drawn out race to college admission, is epidemic. […]
