Career advice columist Penelope Trunk believes that Generation Z (the ‘Net generation) is going to revolutionize the workforce because they are much more likely to be homeschooled. Generation Z will revolutionize education | Penelope Trunk. Gen X is more comfortable working outside the system than Baby Boomers. Gen X women are fine quitting their jobs [...]
Does a $40,000 a year education that comes with an elite degree deliver ten times the education of a cheaper but no less rigorous self-generated approach assembled from less famous institutions and free or inexpensive resources? Seth’s Blog: Buying an education or buying a brand?. Two smack downs on Harvard in a row? This is [...]
If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of a difference, why not franchise it so more people can attend? Why not create 100 Harvard affiliates? via Peter Thiel: We’re in a Bubble and It’s Not the Internet. It’s Higher Education.. The only way my kids are going to Harvard is [...]
Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? That’s like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn’t it make sense to teach them something useful instead? How to Get a Real Education at College – WSJ.com. Although I do agree [...]
I stole the title from the comments of the linked blog post about a guy who went to MIT without ever graduating high school. I know this seems like a big deal to people who grew up in the system. For those of us who have raised our kids out of the system, it’s not [...]
Wow! Somebody “discovered” unschooling. I am the only one who is a little sad every time a limited experiment in the school system validates something we’ve known for a long time? These one-off experiments never amount to anything. Yes, these 8 kids are better off, and that by itself is valuable. But does anybody really [...]
This is depressingly unsurprising. The essay portion of your kid’s standardized test is being scored by a low paid temp who is likely a worse writer than your child, and probably is just making up the scores to fit a pre-determined normal distribution that needs to be returned to the school district. My son is [...]
If we spent $50 billion less on K-12 education—in both public and private money—and instead spent $50 billion more on early intervention programs, we’d almost certainly get a way bigger bang for the buck. Politicians understand the concept of leverage when it comes to investing money for their personal gain. Why do they have so [...]
It probably should not be surprising that founder of Kahn Academy is thinking bigger than tutoring kids on YouTube these days. He is out to do nothing less than change education in the US. First, he says, we should decouple credentialing from learning. Instead of handing out degrees, standardized assessments would be the measure of [...]
…home-schooling advocate Michael Ferris was one of many right-wing activists complaining about Reagan by the end of his presidency, writing that his White House "offered us a bunch of political trinkets." Sigh. In an otherwise perfectly fine reminder that the Regan legacy imagined by conservatives is just that; imagined, The Washington Post has to go [...]
There’s something I’ve noticed a lot that can make things really difficult for us unschoolers, and that is this: unschoolers are always held to a higher standard than those with more traditional educational backgrounds. I don’t believe that the author was unschooled. Her writing is clear and concise, and lacks grammar and spelling errors. We [...]
In 1992, my wife was a lead pre-school teacher in Georgia. She made $9.75 an hour. Last week, she was offered a lead teacher’s position from a national chain that you’ve heard of. She was offered $8.50 an hour. 19 years later and the pay for the people we pay to take care of our [...]
Kelli Space is 23 and living at home with mom and dad, trying to pay off the $200,000 in student loan debt she racked up getting a Sociology degree from Northeastern University. If you are keeping score at home, her payments are $900 a month until 2011, when they increase to $1600 a month for [...]
General Motors, in conjunction with the release of the Volt Electric Car, has a bunch of resources available for K-12, as well as teachers, to help teach and learn about electricity. Random trivia; GM used to sponsor their own University. I have a friend from business school that got his undergrad from GM University. I [...]
Sal Khan is a Harvard educated CS major with a MBA. He spends his days in the corner of his bedroom creating bite sized tutorials on YouTube, on subjects ranging from Algebra and Calculus to economics and science. I’m starting a virtual school for the world, teaching things the way I wanted to be taught, [...]
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