A school where the teachers teach whatever they want and the students pay with whatever teachers need — not with money. Caroline Woolard discusses the challenges and opportunities for Trade Schools. Read more »
A community apartment building in the Bronx offers parenting workshops, after-school programs, counseling, job training, summer camp and more. The catch? You have to be a grandparent raising a grandchild to live here. Read more »
This week in sharing is back in its old spot on Thursday. It turns out Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest. Just got the memo. Take these links as penance.
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By now those of you in America are hopefully over your Thanksgiving turkey hangover. If you're in Canada, you've been over it for a long time now. If you're in neither place, Thanksgiving probably seems like a pretty vague holiday. Read more »
Too many people think you need permission to learn something, or that difficult things have to be learned in school. However, the prevalence of this attitude is much lower among entrepreneurs than practically any other group. Read more »
Born out of a collaboration between Net Impact and the School for Visual Art's new Design for Social Innovation MFA program, the world’s first Designathon for Corporate Social Responsibility was held this weekend. Read more »
Anya Kamenetz is the author of Generation Debt, DIY U, and most recently, The Edupunks' Guide to A DIY Credential. She is also a senior writer at Fast Company Magazine, where she writes the column Life in Beta. Read more »
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