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How I Went Back to University on a Scholarship at 40—Yes It Was Worth It!

2020

You’re never too old to go back to school. You’re never too old to qualify for a scholarship either. I went back AND I was able to get a scholarship for the online accredited university I’m attending at Western Governors University. See more...

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Standardization Broke Education. Here’s How We Can Fix Our Schools

“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”

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You, Your Child, and School: Navigate Your Way to the Best Education

Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world’s most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents about the dilemmas they face.

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Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education

Ken Robinson is one of the world’s most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization’s history.

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#6 Philip Tetlock: How to See the Future

In this episode of the Knowledge Project, I chat with professor and New York Times best-selling author Philip Tetlock about how we can get better at the art and science of predicting the future.

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Teaching Tips for Children and Adults with Autism

Good teachers helped me to achieve success. I was able to overcome autism because I had good teachers.

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Genius May Be an Abnormality: Educating Students with Asperger’s Syndrome, or High Functioning Autism

I am becoming increasingly concerned that intellectually gifted children are being denied opportunities because they are being labeled either Asperger’s or high functioning autism.

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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger’s

In the real world, people on the autism spectrum need the same kinds of day-to-day skills everyone else needs to be functional! It’s true.

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Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850–1954: An Intellectual History

Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman.

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Radicalizing Yoga and Bringing Social Justice to the Mat

Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”

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Malala: The Girl Who Was Shot for Going to School

Schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen—her “crime,” to have spoken up for the right of girls to be educated.

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Access to Education