Why Are You On The Road To College?
Posted on May 3, 2008 - Filed Under Education, Fatherhood | Leave a Comment
EDIT: This was originally posted Friday morning, but my wonderful blog web hosting company deleted my blog Friday night and took more than 12 hours to restore it from their backups, so this post (and possibly others that I don’t recall now) were missing.
Couldn’t sleep this morning, so I was stumbling around some and came across a post by Karlana titled high school education = graduation = college education … It all leads to somewhere! It starts out well enough-
Long title,…
Kettering Isn’t Your Parent’s University
Posted on April 8, 2008 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment
On Saturday I took Z to an open house at the local private school I’m hoping to send her to for high school. As a result we started talking once again about college (it’s a college prep school). I used to be adamant about the needs for a college education, but as I’ve wizened my opinion has changed. I now believe that most people would be better served taking the tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars spent on a…
A Call To Arms For Anarchist Bloggers
Posted on January 19, 2008 - Filed Under Anarchy | 1 Comment
Part of the Applied Anarchy 2008 Series - Previous in series Next in series
Since it was created by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, if you don’t have kids you’ve probably never heard of No Name-Calling Week. In fact, I didn’t even hear of it in my role as a parent, but rather thanks to StumbleUpon. From their FAQ-
- What is No Name-Calling Week?No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds…
XBOX As A Tool Of Political Education
Posted on December 27, 2007 - Filed Under Living Free | 1 Comment
It’s always a struggle trying to educate people when it comes to politics and government. Although it’s often easier to educate children because they haven’t been quite as brainwashed by the state (yet), the conversations tend to be quite different. Today, Jim Pontillo from the formykountry blog, gives us a great example.
The bulk of the post relates his tale of woe at being regularly defeated at Halo 3 by the neighbor’s 12 year old. Once he finally achieves a victory the…
Don’t Think Online Universities Grant Real Degrees? Think Again!
Posted on December 19, 2007 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment
I’ve written here a few times about the possibility of earning a college degree online. Every time I get comments and/or emails from people telling me that no one has any respect for online universities, so they’re a waste of time and money. Well, tell that to Teresa Chaulk. She was recently named superintendent of Lincoln County School District Number One in Kemmerer, Wyoming and earned her PhD through the online degree program at Capella University (which I wrote about just…
Ready To Get Out Of The IT Rat Race?
Posted on December 18, 2007 - Filed Under Education | Leave a Comment
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics three of the fastest growing occupations in America are network systems and data communications analysts, computer software engineers, and computer systems analysts, all of which generally require a bachelor’s degree (at least). Living in Silicon Valley I know dozens of folx with these skills and these degrees who are getting burned out on their jobs, but feel trapped due to the expertise and connections they’ve developed over the years. Well, capella university may…
