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Old-School Apprenticeships Help Children Learn in Modern World It might sound really old fashioned, but apprenticeships are coming back in style, just like retro tees for women and Zubaz (ahh – the memories) for guys. And these aren’t the apprenticeships of old where you lease out your children as soon as they turn 13 so that [...]

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University of Mom

Surviving the Challenges of College and Colic as a Student and Parent College can be challenging enough for dedicated students, but attending college as a new mom adds a whole new twist to this academic venture. I hadn’t finished college before my first child was born, but I knew I wanted to complete my degree [...]

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7 Ways High School Fails to Prepare Kids for College

The skills needed to do well in college are most often not taught in high school. More than half-way through her first year of college my daughter has been learning a valuable lesson: success in college isn’t guaranteed by the credits and course descriptions on a high school transcript. In fact, professors on her campus [...]

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Is Your Children’s School Failing Them?

School years are the exciting times when we as parents watch our children morph into mini-adults with knowledge, excitement, and newfound understanding. Not all children are so fortunate, however, as not all schools are created equally. There are great schools, average schools, and schools that are little more than buildings that house children. If you [...]

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Standardized Tests: Failures in Education

Why Our Children Don’t Need These Exams Teachers, parents, and students all face the stress of superfluous standardized tests. Teachers are accountable for training students to take these exams and pass them. Parents are often responsible for making sure their children are constantly preparing for these tests. Students have perhaps the biggest burdens of all: [...]

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Does Your Child Need College?

Ways to Help Your Child Find a Career Path As adults and parents who are watching the job markets around us take more twists, turns, and plummets than an amusement park ride, trying to prepare our children for these challenges can be very daunting. Gone are the days when we just need to escort [...]

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College Too Soon? A Discussion of Dual Enrollment and PSEO

Are kids really ready for college before they are old enough to drive to prom? The trend in most states across America says yes to this question. At increasing rates young students are earning dual credits for both their last two years of high school and their first two years of postsecondary education. Dual enrollment, [...]

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The College Conspiracy: Should You Send Your Kids To College?

This is a great documentary film that helps back up the point I always preach. We should be teaching our children how to create value in the world by teaching them SKILLS so they can create their own job. We must eradicate the idea that jobs are something our children are owed if they get [...]

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Colleges Not Creating Smarter Kids

According to a recent article titled, Student tracking finds limited learning in college researchers who studied how much college benefited students found that after two years of college education there was only a 7% increase in the students critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing. Unfortunately the results didn’t get much better after four more years. [...]

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