No Time to Lose: We Must Broaden Our Children’s Exposure to the Real World We have entered “the greatest transformation human civilization has ever known”…
A Generation of Students Caught Between Two Worlds
A Generation of Students Caught Between Two Worlds The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries created a cultural shift from rural farms to…
The Dollars and Sense of a College Degree
The Dollars and Sense of a College Degree I never thought I’d be in the restaurant business: it’s risky, I don’t like to cook, and…
Preparing Our Children to Pioneer a New Frontier
Preparing Our Children to Pioneer a New Frontier For most of my years as a parent, I subscribed to the college-for-all mantra like the rest…
Education and The Magic Thread
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.…
Lifelong Learning Has Created Opportunities for Student Exploration Between High School and College
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…
Rebalancing the Relationship Between School and Home
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…
Changing the Culture of Sameness: A Track for Everyone
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…
Pathway Choices: Alternatives to College
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…
Pathway Choices: College
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…