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🐴 Protecting the "Internal Spark"

🐴 Protecting the "Internal Spark"

From calculator protests to Nobel Prize winners, what history teaches us about the tools (and fears) that shape education...

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🐴 Are we making our kids more anxious by keeping them "safe"?

🐴 Are we making our kids more anxious by keeping them "safe"?

The definition of anxiety is thinking there will be something scary that you won't be able to deal with." Lenore Skenazy on why overprotection might be the real danger. Plus: How hybrid homeschool communities are reimagining education.

🐴 Why Ansel Adams' father pulled him out of school

🐴 Why Ansel Adams' father pulled him out of school

When Ansel Adams was 12, his father pulled him from school and gave him a pass to the World's Fair instead. The result? One of America's most celebrated artists. Plus: what kindergartners really need (and it's not more worksheets).

🐴 Nobel Prize winner: "I don't believe in honors"

🐴 Nobel Prize winner: "I don't believe in honors"

Nobel physicist Richard Feynman's rejection of external validation offers a powerful lesson for education. PLUS: What's really happening at the Department of Education, and how to navigate a massive homeschool resource database.

🐴 "No ChatGPT Until High School"

🐴 "No ChatGPT Until High School"

Today's ChatGPT panic looks remarkably similar to the calculator protests of the 1960s. What can history teach us about the tools we fear? PLUS: A reimagined gap year and free online STEM tutoring.

🐴 "That's not knowledge" — MythBusters' Adam Savage goes viral

🐴 "That's not knowledge" — MythBusters' Adam Savage goes viral

From memorization factories to billion-dollar dropouts, the growing gap between what schools measure and what life requires...

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🐴 Why 'weird' kids win in adulthood

🐴 Why 'weird' kids win in adulthood

Award-winning educator T.K. Coleman reveals why "weird" might be your child's superpower. PLUS: The real reason traditionally-schooled kids struggle in adulthood & how artificial age-segregation limits social development.

🐴 Personal tutors for all (Sal Khan's latest promise)

🐴 Personal tutors for all (Sal Khan's latest promise)

Khan Academy's AI tutoring tool makes big claims. Plus: How to know what's in your child's books before they read them.

🐴 Minnesota AND Iowa?? (+ 12 podcasts for busy parents)

🐴 Minnesota AND Iowa?? (+ 12 podcasts for busy parents)

OpenEd is expanding to Iowa and Minnesota! Plus: Adam Savage exposes why tests miss real learning & 12 education podcasts to transform driving time into a learning opportunity.

🐴 How a $100,000 bet against college created 11 billion-dollar companies

🐴 How a $100,000 bet against college created 11 billion-dollar companies

Harvard requires 32 credits to graduate, but how many do you actually need for success? PLUS: OpenEd is coming to Minnesota! Tell a friend.

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🐴 Print Your Own Diploma (Weekly Roundup)

🐴 Print Your Own Diploma (Weekly Roundup)

From valedictorian's empty victory to homeschool diplomas at the Mayo Clinic, why traditional credentials matter less than you think...

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
🐴 Is 'Homeschooling' the wrong word (when you're only home 3 hours a day)?

🐴 Is 'Homeschooling' the wrong word (when you're only home 3 hours a day)?

Veteran homeschool mom of five reveals why "homeschooling" is actually a misnomer. PLUS: How prioritizing emotional wellbeing transformed her special needs children & the surprising truth about diplomas that employers don't tell you.

Charlie Deist
Charlie Deist
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