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What kind of incentives motivate lenders to continue awarding six-figure sums to teenagers facing both the worst youth unemployment rate in decades and an increasingly competitive global workforce?
If there is a guru of networking, it is Reid Hoffman. Here he explains how to do it right -- and wrong -- in an excerpt from his new book with Ben Casnocha, The Start-Up of You.
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A long time ago, I sent a thick packet of information to Yale, explaining in considerable detail how awesome I was and why they should accept the honor of my giving them tens of thousands of dollars a year.
Sal from Khan Academy makes very ZTC-like predictions of the future of education.
College classes are hugely resourceful. Whether “Going the College Way” is right for you or not, a lot of knowledge can be gained just from listening to one lecture, interacting with peers interested in and studying the same subjects as you, and having knowledgeable, resourceful authorities whose brains you can pick endlessly.
It used to be that if you worked hard, you were guaranteed a certain kind of life. There are reasons success is no longer a straight shot.
Thanks to the Internet, you don’t have to take on mountains of debt to snag a piece of that educational pie. Many Ivy League schools have online coursework available for free.
South Korea has so many college grads for so few jobs that the president is discouraging students from seeking higher education. ...
There is no homeschooling vs unschooling. All homeschooling is unschooling. If you replicate school at home then you are not doing anything. You are depriving your kids of being in a system that has mastered the art of teaching to the test. If you teach to the test at home, you are not homeschooling.
Last weekend we ran the first-ever ZTC Camp program in Asheville, NC.
An edupunk is someone who doesn’t want to play by the old college rules. Maybe you have interests that don’t fit the academic mold. Maybe you’re in a remote location.
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"...what if [software isn't] a science? What if it's more like a craft? Or even an art? If you wanted to hire somebody who could be a great craftsperson, you wouldn't look for somebody with a PhD in that craft."
If you start looking into the benefits of a college degree, you'll see this phrase a lot in the articles extolling their virtues: "... people with professional degrees earn more/have more rewarding employment/satisfy more sexual partners on top of a Ferrari." What does that mean, exactly? Can you even get an amateur degree? You can get a professional degree in the Liberal Arts, right? Like ... like a professional Theoretical Sociologist?
A new two-year program wants to provide a real-world education that compete with an academic one.
The Faculty Project brings academia's most outstanding professors to the computers, tablets, and smartphones of people all over the world.
2011 was a big year for articles that intelligently criticized the college-for-all idea
Most kids at 18 don’t relish philosophy but they relish the experience of freedom and being out of their parents’ home for the first time in their lives. There is nothing wrong with this. Young adults have a lot of energy and should use it. But the problem is that college costs have risen 1000% in the past 30 years while healthcare has risen 700% and inflation has risen “only” 300%.
Hiring is broken. Actually, it’s always been broken, we just didn’t pay attention.
The rise of online education could effectively render terrible teachers redundant, while bolstering the careers of talented educators. There’s a word for this; it’s progress.
We unschoolers are on an eternal gap year – let’s take the time we need to make this important life decision.
"College has been oversold. It has been oversold to students who end up dropping out or graduating with degrees that don’t help them very much in the job market. It also has been oversold to the taxpayers, who foot the bill for these subsidies."
Students, don't accept the credential of a degree from an institution as a ticket to your success. By the time you graduate, if you graduate, you'll still have to prove yourself. Prove yourself every day. Seek and gain visible, public recognition of your work, and employers will come looking for you.
A lack of marketable skills, not Wall Street and capitalism, are the reason the protestors don’t have good jobs.
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