We have entered “the greatest transformation human civilization has ever known” according to the World Economic Forum. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is eliminating millions of…
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 factory-filled cities. Imagine the confusion of parents, trained…
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 I know very little about the industry.…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?…
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…