Community colleges are at the forefront when it comes to training for eco-economy careers.
(Fortune Magazine) — Community colleges have long held second-class-citizen status in the world of higher education. But they've suddenly become top tier when it comes to one important thing: training for new green-economy jobs.
In recent months, administrators at two-year schools across the [...]
Overschooled but Undereducated:
Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence
John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart
Pre-production edition June 2008
The Initiative published a pre-production of John Abbott and Heather MacTaggart’s new book Overschooled but Undereducated: Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence in June 2008. In December 2008 Continuum Books agreed to publish the book in 2009.
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With the publication [...]
Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
By Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg.
Published by Wharton School Publishing.
ISBN-10: 0-13-234649-4; ISBN-13: 978-0-13-234649-8; Published: Jun 3, 2008
Education should be a lifelong enterprise, a process enhanced by an environment that supports to the greatest extent possible the attempt of people to “find themselves” throughout their lives.
For [...]
Welcome to CLAWS at whywork.org. We’re a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work? This site provides information, support, and resources for those looking for alternatives to traditional employment.
We actively promote alternatives to the wage slavery mindset and what we call "The Cult of the Job" which automatically equates [...]
