The more difficult it is for teens to find jobs, the more they stop looking for those jobs. For all the societal angst around youth social media use, it could be that many teens don’t have a lot of other options for how to spend their time. Reducing barriers to work could go a long way toward empowering teens to have healthier, more authentic, real-life interactions with the people in their communities.
My teen’s first job
Category: Education
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My teen’s first job
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These Aren’t the Important Things
This is an excellent article by Kerry MacDonald, who has been traveling around the country this year learning about microschools and other alternatives to the conventional classroom.
In a World Full of Robots, Humans Wanted | Cato Institute
“So we got progress reports home saying she can only count to 100, but she should be counting to 150 at this point. And her Spanish comprehension is not where we want it to be. And around this time, it’s starting to click with me that maybe these aren’t the important things.”
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Wiser than Me
The first episode of the Wiser than Me podcast by Julia Louis-Dreyfus hooked me. Julia is featuring conversations with old ladies and what we can learn from them. The podcast is very well done. I’m looking forward to hearing more.
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Pocket Casts is the One
I love listening to podcasts as well as audiobooks. Auditory learner here, for sure. I loaded Pocket Casts up yesterday to give it a whirl and fell in love instantly. How easy it was to move my subscriptions over and discover new listens too. What a pleasure! Also, it was a simple thing to manually add my feeds from Substack subscriptions. Even with being a paid subscriber to Spotify, that wasn’t a convenience available on that platform. I love that WordPress bought and is developing Pocket Casts. WordPress has done so much right, in my opinion. If you are just starting out in blogging and want an easy way to run with it on your own, I can’t recommend WordPress.com highly enough either.
Automattic acquired Pocket Casts last July, and since we’ve been tapping away trying to make the best podcast client for people who love listening to podcasts.
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Transformation of Education, Finally
Decades later, we are finally at what I recognize as a tipping point for the transformation of public education. There has been an understanding for decades now that public schools were not keeping up to speed with the real world and that we could do better. Many of us felt a change was imminent back in the 90s, but the wheels of politically charged bureaucracies turn slowly, and the public was generally not concerned enough to take action. Many of us moved on because time was passing us by. Now is different, though. There is change afoot! I’m sure more years in development are required, but the decks are being cleared.
The (Further) Case for the Free Market in Education – Foundation for Economic Education
The (Further) Case for the Free Market in Education – Foundation for Economic EducationWhile you are at it, review some of Peter Gray’s work.
