Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingGrowing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (©2009, Ballantine Books: New York, NY) by Homa Sabet Tavangar will help you prepare children for today’s increasingly interconnected world. This is a hands-on, one-of-a-kind parenting toolbox that will give children a vital global perspective. This is a book that parents, grandparents, and […]
Read entire post...Should Educators Talk of The Bar or Your Bar?
May 27th, 2012Should Education use The Bar or Your Bar? by Douglas W. Green, EdD ©2012 Twitter: @DrDougGreen Email: DGreen@stny.rr.com Blog: HTTP://DrDougGreen.Com Today I offer an original piece that takes on the folly educators indulge in when they talk about The Bar. I hope you enjoy it. Please share. In education, we often hear talk about how […]
Read entire post...Is School Hurting Your Kid?
May 16th, 2012Although I have been concerned about the impact of school sports programs on student health for some time, I became more concerned when I heard Sophie Altcheck (@sophiealt) at TEDNYEd. She is a senior at Horace Mann School in New York City. While aspiring to play college soccer she sustained four concussions. She now is […]
Read entire post...Is College Worth It Issue? Some Think Not.
May 15th, 2012Are we starting to see the impact of a college cost/debt bubble? It seems that students are thinking twice about taking on college debt as others wonder if a college education has any value. When you couple this with tons of free online courses we may be seeing the beginning of a seismic shift. Here […]
Read entire post...Cool Stuff Kids Do Issue
May 9th, 2012I’m a sucker for stories about how students do amazing things. Here we have one has become a go to expert in his field, one who takes on the look of perfect women in magazines, and another college dropout making a bundle. There are more and they are all amazing in their own way. Tweets […]
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