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College costs, educational realities, and some thoughts
There’s an important piece published by The Atlantic on their site, which I discovered this morning. A curious graduate student in Michigan took time to crunch some numbers about how much it costs for tuition at public universities vs. the federal minimum wage (since most college students end up working minimum wage jobs until they…
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Battling the deluge
It’s a very hectic time right now in my office. I’m not entirely sure why, other than sheer workload overload. We’re a small shop, handling the creative work that would keep a group twice our size quite busy. It’s not always easy to juggle all the moving parts, or keep all the plates spinning. Like…
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Culture wars aren’t necessarily Kingdom wars
If you follow news in the world of Christianity, you’re probably aware that a charity named Word Vision, which solicits support for children via sponsors in churches, was embroiled in controversy last week. World Vision announced it would hire Christians who were married to a same-sex partner. Within a few hours, an outcry swamped Evangelicalism…
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About “career” education
A quick link — read this today. Appreciated seeing a very positive article about education for craftsmanship careers, and a high school that doesn’t segregate it’s “vo-tech” education from the academic life of its campus. The Atlantic: Career education
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Link: What Your Parents Never Told You About How the World Works | UnTangled
OOOh. good read! and short. 🙂 Most parents have an intensely protective instinct. This is a good thing. It’s essential to our survival and it comes from a place of love. However, out of this protective instinct—in a futile effort to shelter children from all danger, struggle, and suffering—parents tend to teach their children exclusively…
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