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What do you need to know and how will you learn it?
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A Lifelong Search for Real Education
by Julia Putnamposted Sep 09, 2009 - Grace Lee and Jimmy Boggs brought people together to rebuild inner-city Detroit and to teach the things you can’t learn in a classroom. At 94, Grace is still at it.
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Melia Reschools Herself
by Lynsi Burtonposted Sep 09, 2009 - For her one-woman project, Reschool Yourself, Melia Dicker revisited her childhood classrooms, shadowing students and interviewing teachers to figure out how school had defined her adulthood.
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Radical Acts of Education
posted Sep 09, 2009 - Meet our pick of organizations and strategies that foster life-long learning and personal growth while teaching age-old and brand-new skills.
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Youths Face the Holocaust
by Lynsi Burtonposted Sep 09, 2009 - Facing History connects students to people who have witnessed injustice, like artist and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber.
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What Draft Horses Teach College Students
by Sean Roseposted Sep 09, 2009 - The students at Sterling College learn from demanding teachers—like a stubborn, 2,000-pound draft horse or the campus cows.
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The Power of "Why?"
by Andrea Batista Schlesingerposted Sep 09, 2009 - Students in Hampton, Virginia, and Brooklyn, New York, learn that asking questions is more powerful than memorizing answers.
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Trade Your Job
by Valerie Saturenposted Sep 09, 2009 - The old apprenticeship model of learning by doing gets new life as people who’ve been left out of the job market train to meet the growing demand for green-collar workers.
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Grounded Learning
by Ron Millerposted Sep 09, 2009 - Why educator Ron Miller is turning to soil, water, sunshine, and greens.
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Life's Best Lessons are Outside the Classroom
by Daniel Firesideposted Sep 09, 2009 - Students find real-world solutions when they learn from their community, not just their textbooks.
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Santa Fe Tells Its Stories
by Heather Purserposted Sep 09, 2009 - The Academy for the Love of Learning created El Otro Lado (“the other side” in Spanish), a citywide public art project that encourages people to learn about one another.
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Teens Talk to 90-Somethings
by Sean Roseposted Sep 09, 2009 - Teens in Rabun County, Georgia, are tapping into the memories of 90-year-olds in an effort to protect the culture of southern Appalachia.
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Kids Take Charge of School
by Madeline Ostranderposted Sep 09, 2009 - Students at the Albany Free School and its sister school for upper grades, Harriet Tubman Democratic School, decide how and what to learn.
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Parents Learn to Listen
by Sean Roseposted Sep 09, 2009 - The Morningside Center offers workshops in more than 60 New York City schools to equip parents to understand their children’s emotions.
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Udaipur Hands Down Skills
by Lynsi Burtonposted Sep 09, 2009 - Shikshantar believes anyone can be a teacher and when people collaborate, they can develop a “culture of learning.”
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Parker Palmer: Know Yourself, Change Your World
by Sarah van Gelderposted Sep 09, 2009 - An interview with Parker J. Palmer
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Seniors Find More to Learn
by Sean Roseposted Sep 09, 2009 - Retirement doesn’t have to be merely time off; it can be a time to gain new skills or find rewarding ways to give back to your community.
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Take Back Your Education
by John Taylor Gattoposted Sep 09, 2009 - More and more people are waking up to the mismatch between what is taught in schools and what we need to know. What can you do about it?
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Reinvent Yourself, Reinvent the World
by Sarah van Gelderposted Sep 09, 2009 - Editor's introduction to Learn as You Go, the Fall 2009 issue of YES!
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Citizen Scientists Learn from Flowers
by Heather Purserposted Sep 09, 2009 - People across the country are learning what plants say about global warming.
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Roadtrip Nation Takes the Route Less Traveled
by Madeline Ostranderposted Sep 09, 2009 - Roadtrip Nation, a personal journey turned film, then TV series, and now a youth movement, sends groups of young people out on the road every year to find out how people choose careers they’re passionate about.
